Who invented kanji? The truth remains a mystery. Yet a legend from a neighboring land tells of an ancient sage named Cangjie ...

As a teenager, Kaoru Akagawa couldn’t read her Japanese grandmother’s letters, but she put it down to her unclear handwriting. Over a decade later, Kaoru realized her grandmother hadn’t been a poor ...

The kanji for “bear” (熊, kuma) was chosen as the single most representative character symbolic of the social mood in Japan this year, the Kyoto-based Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation said ...

The kanji was written with a giant calligraphy brush on a roughly 1.5 meters high and 1.3 meters wide sheet of "washi," ...

Yûichi Inoue Kanji Calligraphy Seki, 1966 ink and wash on paper Works on Paper 144 x 211 cm Estimate Realized Price +31% ...

Yûichi Inoue Kanji Calligraphy Zoku, 1976 ink and wash on paper Works on Paper 119 x 201.5 cm Estimate Realized Price +38% ...