May 16, 2009
A student post: shodo class!
This time I will write about one of my interesting classes. It is calligraphy or shodo in Japanese. I and my friend usually study it once a week. This subject teaches you how make beautiful and correct Chinese characters, or kanji. What makes me like this class is the teacher, Mr. Maruo. He is very good in calligraphy and most calligraphy classes are taught by him at Seritsu.
When teaching he doesn't make student feel stress, as he teaches each student how to correct their brush strokes after every practice sheet is written on until we can do it all correct. In this class you must have brush, ink and paper. After we finish one practice sheet, he will check our work and he always gives comments to us in order to improve ourselves.
Calligraphy is a very interesting subject to learn. It makes you know a lot of kanji and makes you become stricter. This is due to the fact that in the beginning students must follow every stroke properly. They can't do any different style stroke on their own. At first it was a bit hard for me, but later on it makes me understand a bit more about Calligraphy. Don��t forget to try it if you have the opportunity.
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