My newest calligraphy practice success :)
This is called "Fresh Wind"/"Kaze o Toosu"(to-o-su). It means "ventilate", or "refresh air". These first two below were confirmed as good by my teacher.
These three below are not good enough.
Here my teacher held my hand. It looks nicer but it doesn't count.
This below is my teacher's writing. Also, you can see the steps as what line to write first. It was a little confusing at first. So you can try too, if you dare! Ha ha ha :)
Calligraphy in Japanese is called Shodo. I'm using a brush and black ink on special calligraphy paper. The paper is very fine, soft, and the size is bigger than A4. I have white and also brown paper. I like the brown better because my writing looks better on the brown paper.
I'm learning two ways of writing. One is called Kaisho and the other one is Gyosho. I like Gyosho better because it is smooth, and more like art. Kaisho is the proper printed version of writing.
My sensei is always giving me to write simple words in Hiragana and Kanji. My sensei's writing is in orange, and the orange circle that my sensei draws over my writing means that I did well.
Shodo is awesome! I really enjoy it very much. You can try with me if you like.