Calligraphy Class / Shodo #23 - Aka / Red

Actually, I'm writing my calligraphy weekly but for some reason I haven't been posting it. This is my recent stuff.

It's Hiragana style and it reads first "a", the second "ka". It means red color, my favorite. These first two are my best.

Here, my sensei held my hand and we wrote together.

And, this is my sensei's writing. It's beautiful as always.

Calligraphy in Japanese is called Shodo. I'm using a brush and black ink on special calligraphy paper. The paper is very fine, soft, and the size is bigger than A4. I have white and also brown paper. I like the brown better because my writing looks better on the brown paper.

I'm learning two ways of writing. One is called Kaisho and the other one is Gyosho. I like Gyosho better because it is smooth, and more like art. Kaisho is the proper printed version of writing.

My sensei is always giving me to write simple words in Hiragana and Kanji. My sensei's writing is in orange, and the orange circle that my sensei draws over my writing means that I did well.

Shodo is awesome! I really enjoy it very much. You can try with me if you like.