Blog Assignment #51 by Ayana

Hello, I want to write about my expert about things. I think that I am expert in the act of writing beautifully, called calligraphy. I belong to the calligraphy club when I was a high school student. Calligraphy in Japan started with six-dynasty, calligraphy brought from Baekje. I think what is interesting in calligraphy, the act of writing characters in one's own style, or an act of writing freely without a model in calligraphy. I think what is important things are technique of handling a writing brush in calligraphy, the part of a character that is written with an upward sweeping brush stroke and a way of holding a brush in calligraphy, called "pinching brush grip." Sanpitsu is the name to call three excellent calligraphers. Emperor Saga is one of the Noshoka called Sanpitsu along with Kukai and TACHIBANA no Hayanari, and calligraphy products believed to be Emperor Saga's shinkan are as follows.