These three works were written by me the day before the earthquake that hit Japan. Since then, I could not find inner peace to write. Finally I am ready to go back to my every day calligraphy studies. I am therefore posting my latest works.

Great Buddhist monk Kuukai (空海) who lived in 9th century C.E. once said that calligrapher should be able to write with any brush. Following his philosophy I have tried to write with papaer tissues. I suffer from severe hayfever thus i price tissues higher than water, especially in March and April when the cedar trees try to kill me. When I was studying calligraphy last time, I had to put my brush aside and grab a tissue every minute, so I got tired with it and switched to writing with tissues. I think the final effect is quite interesting.


水 water



道 path



雲 cloud

It would appear that one of my works has won a silver prize on the 62-nd nationwide contest (全国書初大会), organised by the All Japan Calligraphy Art and Literature Association (全日本書芸文化院). I must say that it was a pleasant surprise. :).

certificate


work that I have submitted

congratulations piotr. you must feel chuffed.

Thanks, Dogsbody. More surprised than chuffed, haha.

飛龍 flying dragon

awesome thread, quick question: what do your hanko(s) say? (i'm horrible at reading that style) :confused: just curious :D

Cheers Kenmei, glad you like it.

Yeah, I have a very long way ahead of me to be able to read seal scrip fluently, too. Basically the study of it is endless.

The 引首印 (top right) says 無心

The 姓名印 (first on the left in intaglio) says　品天 (think Buddhism here) and it's a phonetic transcription of the first part of my surname - "Ponte".

The 雅号印 (the bottom one on the left in relief) says 龍涙, as in 精神(龍)の墨(涙).

Here is a better picture of them

風雲　wind and clouds, elements (of nature)

鳳, Feng - male Chinese firebird

i am not any specialist or something, but it is really beautiful:)

nice thread dude. you must be doing something right if you are winning awards :)

i have some kanji i was thinking of having tatooed but i need advice of what font to use. I really like the neat and formal looking characters used in the award sheet you posted. Could you help me out?