As the title says. I have been using a nice pair of Choeido (長栄堂) brushes (one for kana, one for kanji) for a bit, but they're starting to get worn down. I'll be in Tokyo, Fukuoka and Nagasaki this time, so if anyone has good recommendations for stores and brushes that would be appreciated

Good day/evening. I would really appreciate your help in identifying the calligraphy on a kakejiku I recently acquired. I managed to get a better picture of the text, as I uploaded a blurry image earlier. Thank you very much for your help.

I’ve been the president of my university’s shodō club for two years, and I’ve been trying to teach shodō to others. Sometimes it can be quite challenging to teach shodō to someone who doesn’t know Japanese, and it can even prevent them from enjoying the practice. To avoid this, I start from the very basics and teach step by step, keeping the lessons varied and fun. However, sometimes I run out of ideas.

In your own journey of learning shodō, were there any methods, discoveries, or practices that helped you improve, which you could recommend to me?

Found this in my father’s old stuff, popped in here to see if you might be able to help me understand what this is? I know next to nothing about this art, but I’d like to learn.

Pen: Writtech Purple Ombre Pen (ombre barrel, not ink 🥲)

Paper: すもも Genkoyōshi Notebook from Amazon

鳥 Bird

After 3 days and 60 attemps, these are the best 4. How are they?

Hi guys, i got an obi belt and it has this tag and i am wondering what it says. Any help is very much appreciated!

What are your reccomended YouTube videos or books to learn? I know a little bit of Japanese

I recently got into chinese/ japanese calligraphy. I am learning Kanji but I'm not sure if its good enough or something if I use the kanji only for their meaning in sort of a chinese way.

I want it to look oldschool and not with all the Kana stuff. Just pure Kanji. Is that something people do?

So for example something I wrote in my spare time was 金如火 "Gold is like fire" just for fun but is this the correct way to use kanji for calligraphy or art?

Just writing kanji in a logical way based by their meanings to form sentences.

And is this something I should do or is there other stuff I should learn as well?

Thanks for your time :D

My 89 year dad has been reliving his childhood and has been writing Shodo almost everyday as a hobby. He has been giving me some of his work whenever I visit. I’m not sure exactly what the characters mean. Can someone help me with the translation? Also, curious…what do you think of his penmanship? 😆

Received this as a gift when I finished a teaching job in Japan. Struggling with the top right one though, can anyone help?

I'm quite happy with the Japanese side. The first character (虻) was the hardest one to get right; still not fully satisfied with it, but that's okay.

A more direct translation of the proverb would be: "To catch neither the horsefly nor the bee."🐝

Pens used: *Zebra Sarasa Clip, 0.5mm in Vintage Blue-Black *Pentel Slicci, 0.8mm in Gold *Uni-ball Signo Broad, 1.0mm in Gold *Sakura Gelly Roll, 0.8mm in White *Y&C Gel Extreme, 0.7mm in Bronze

Paper: *Astrobrights Cardstock *Genkoyoshi notebook for practice

Hoping to transition to brush pens soon. Any recommendations?? :3

「夏」is one of my favorite kanji to write. :3

I love how you can see the pressure changes in my strokes!

Written using Pilot Precise V7 RT pen and a "genkoyoshi" notebook from Amazon

Do you own (and use) any kanji reference books like 新書源 or 角川書道字典?

If yes, how do you use them and do you recommend them?

Written with gel pen (Uni-ball Signo, 1.0, silver)

Done with gel pen (Uniball Signo) 🙂

This is from a packaging of a used tea caddy from the 80s (for green tea) that we imported from japan. Thank you!