Taction : the drama of the chisel, stylus, brush in oriental calligraphy
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Taction : the drama of the chisel, stylus, brush in oriental calligraphy
(LTCB International Library selection, no. 29)
I-House Press, c2011
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Taction : the drama of the stylus in oriental calligraphy / Ishikawa Kyuyoh ; translated by Waku Miller
書 : 筆蝕の宇宙を読み解く
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
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  Switzerland
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Note
"Originally appeared in Japanese as Sho : Hisshoku no uchu o yomitoku (Tokyo: Chuo Koron Shinsha, 2005)"--T.p. verso
Includes index
At head of title: LTCB International Library Trust/International House of Japan
Description and Table of Contents
Table of Contents
- 1 TACTION—The wellspring of calligraphic expression
- 2 RECIPROCITY—The yin and yang of calligraphy
- 3 VERTICALITY—Calligraphy’s spiritual orientation
- 4 MELODY—Regularity,irregularity,and both
- 5 STORYTELLING—Plot development through taction
- 4 RHYTHM—Meterless and stepped taction
- 7 COMMUNICATION—The modes of expression
- 8 BRUSH DYNAMICS—Upright and sideways,jabbing and caressing,pushing and pulling
- 9 ARCHITECTURE—How characters come together
- 10 DANCE—Movement seen and motion sensed
- 11 PROTOSCRIPTS—Calligraphy and design
- 12 MARGIN—Calligraphy’s larger context
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