I'm looking for a quality book to study the basics of shodo technique (not necessarily it's history but that's also appreciated if the focus is still on the practice). I'm trying to avoid any new age and Orientalist Japanese exceptionalism bs. Any language is fine.

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Im wondering if anyone knows how to write “ha” in shodo?

For example:

蛇は脱皮

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Hello, I’m a relatively new shodo calligrapher. While practicing, I’ve had the issue of my hand shaking uncontrollably, preventing me from making straight lines, or ruining strokes altogether. Is there anything I can do to make my hands more steady?

I've been considering getting into shodo lately, and in doing a bit of research I learned that it not only has a ranking system, but that it uses the dan system. As a martial artist (and very briefly a go player,) I found this interesting, and I was hoping to learn more about how the kyu/dan ranks are implemented in shodo. Is ranking a common thing amongst hobbiests, or do only the more serious practitioners do it? Is it commonly done outside of Japan? Who certifies ranks? What sort of criteria goes into being ranked? How seriously does the community at large take ranks? Things like that.

Overall, this will have very little affect on whether or not I choose to try my hand at shodo, but whether I do or not I am very interested to learn more about this topic.

Hi,

I'm planning to get a tattoo of the following phrase from a story by Hakuin:

「ああ、そうか」

I tried to learn some shodō but I wasn't able to make anything that looked good! The regular script wasn't too bad but I want to have the cursive sōsho style.

Does anyone know how I might go about commissioning someone to write this for me?

I have always wanted to have my own Hanko, but do they normally come from the calligrapher's Kanji name? And what about foreigners who want to have one?

I found an online shop who can make very neat custom made hanko in my country and I want one for my birthday gift this month, but I just don't know what to write on there 😂

Thank you in advance 🙏🏻✨

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Hi all, I’ve done a workshop in shodō during my holiday in Tokyo. I instantly fell in love with it, bought all the equipment to get started and found myself questioning myself: How do I learn to do this by myself?

I’m based in the Netherlands so I already figure that there’s no shodō school in my area so are there any resources recommended for absolute beginners?