Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. LTCB International Library Trust.
2. Kokusai Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo, Japan)

Description

1. xviii, 297 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. LTCB international library selection = 長銀国際ライブラリー叢書 ; no. 29
2. LTCB international library selection = Chōgin kokusai raiburarī sōsho ; no. 29

Uniform title

1. 書 : 筆蝕の宇宙を読み解く. English
2. Sho : hisshoku no uchū o yomitoku. English
3. LTCB international library selection ; no. 29.

Alternative title

1. 書 : 筆蝕の宇宙を読み解く.
2. Sho : hisshoku no uchū o yomitoku.
3. Taction : the drama of the stylus in oriental calligraphy

Subject

1. Inscriptions, Chinese
2. Calligraphy, Chinese > Appreciation > Japan
3. Calligraphy, Japanese > History
4. Chinese language > Writing
5. Japanese language > Writing

Contents

1. Taction : the wellspring of calligraphic expression -- Reciprocity : the yin and yang of calligraphy -- Verticality : calligraphy's spiritual orientation -- Melody : regularity, irregularity, and both -- Storytelling : plot development through taction -- Rhythm : meterless and stepped taction -- Communication : the modes of expression -- Brush dynamics : upright and sideways, jabbing and caressing, pushing and pulling -- Architecture : how characters come together -- Dance : movement seen and motion sensed -- Protoscripts : calligraphy and design -- Margin : calligraphy's larger context.

Call number

1. JFE 12-4475

Note

1. At head of title: LTCB International Library Trust/International House of Japan.
2. Translation of: Sho : hisshoku no uchū o yomitoku (Tokyo : Chuo Koron Shinsha, 2005).
3. Includes index.

Author

1. Ishikawa, Kyūyō, 1945-

Alternate script for author

1. 石川九楊, 1945-

Title

1. Taction : the drama of the chisel, stylus, brush in oriental calligraphy / Ishikawa Kyuyoh ; translated by Waku Miller.

Alternate script for uniform title

1. 書 : 筆蝕の宇宙を読み解く. English

Imprint

1. Tokyo : International House of Japan, 2011.

Edition

1. 1st English ed.

Series

1. LTCB international library selection = Chōgin kokusai raiburarī sōsho ; no. 29

Alternate script for series

1. LTCB international library selection = 長銀国際ライブラリー叢書 ; no. 29

Series

1. LTCB international library selection ; no. 29.

Added author

1. LTCB International Library Trust.
2. Kokusai Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo, Japan)

Added title page title

1. Taction : the drama of the stylus in oriental calligraphy

LCCN

1. 2011385768

ISBN

1. 9784924971318
2. 4924971316

Research call number

1. JFE 12-4475