Author: Shozo Sato

Brand: Shozo Sato

Edition: Hardcover with Jacket

Features:

• Shodo

ISBN: 4805312041

Number Of Pages: 176

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Release Date: 2014-03-11

Details: In this beautiful and extraordinary zen calligraphy book, Shozo Sato, an internationally recognized master of traditional Zen arts, teaches the art of Japanese calligraphy through the power and wisdom of Zen poetry.

Single-line Zen Buddhist koan aphorisms, or zengo, are one of the most common subjects for the traditional Japanese brush calligraphy known as shodo. Regarded as one of the key disciplines in fostering the focused, meditative state of mind so essential to Zen, shodo calligraphy is practiced regularly by all students of Zen Buddhism in Japan. After providing a brief history of Japanese calligraphy and its close relationship with the teachings of Zen Buddhism, Sato explains the necessary supplies and fundamental brushstroke skills that you'll need. He goes on to present thirty zengo, each featuring:

• An example by a skilled Zen monk or master calligrapher
• An explanation of the individual characters and the Zen koan as a whole
• Step-by-step instructions on how to paint the phrase in a number of styles (Kaisho, Gyosho, Sosho)

• The Art of Kanji
• The Four Treasures of Shodo
• Ideogram Zengo
• Students of Shodo

UPC: 884756448046

EAN: 9784805312049

Package Dimensions: 12.3 x 9.3 x 1.1 inches

Languages: English, French