Akira Toriyama put careful consideration into making sure that every symbol in Dragon Ballhas meaning, whether a character is wearing it or if the symbol appears on a piece of equipment, such as with ...

Richard Wang’s new youth workshop series “Ink for Healing” will teach mental well-being skills through the art of Chinese ...

I know now that what calligraphy is teaching me is not the value of replication but the dizzying, unbearable possibility that leaning into pleasure could allow me to know myself more fully.

In Chinese calligraphy, the white space (空白 kōng bái) is as important as the ink. It reflects the Daoist concept of emptiness ...

Kanji are symbols that represent words in Japanese. They can stand alone, or they can combine with other kanji or kana to create more words and ideas. They are descended from Chinese characters, which ...

“Chinese Calligraphy “Shu Fa, is defined by Cihac, (an authoritative, comprehensive Chinese dictionary) as the art of writing stylistic scripts of Chinese characters including the seal ...

Swiss author/artist Louis constructs a story around the introduction of 30 simple Chinese characters. Her rather clunky tale follows Liu, a small Chinese girl, as she makes her way to her ...

Hengping Shuzhi is a 2023 non-fiction book written by Chinese documentary director Liu Junwei. The title refers to the flat horizontal and straight vertical strokes used in Chinese characters, or ...

In a complementary vein, work published in 2019 [2] explored an intelligent system that enhances Chinese calligraphy by transforming handwritten characters through convolutional neural networks.