Japanese calligraphy Oct.13th

One of my friend whose father is a professor at Rutgers asked me to attend a Japanese Culture Club meeting about Japanese calligraphy and demonstorate some Shuji staff.

I said "sure" and I just came back my room from that meeting now.

What interesting was they, I mean non-Japanese people, were so creative.

They didn't know the basic techniques of Japanese calligraphy such as stop, jump, and sweep, or couldn't keep these rules even they tried.

But thier products were so unique and creative.

I guess they do not consider Japanese calligraphy as just "character", but "art".

One of them, who was left-handed, wrote 飛行機 (airplane) on the lower half of a paper (usually, we write characters on the center of the paper) and draw a picture of Kendama (Japanese traditional toy) trick called 飛行機 (airplane).

I was like OMG.

It looked like they were very enjoying Japanese calligraphy in thier own way.

(some girld brought the paper which was wrote about "Bitch" to me and asked "how can I write bitch in Japanese katakana?" )

It was fun night.