A+Taste+of+Japan+for+Older+Students+2

= Calligraphy (shodo: "the way of writing") is the art of writing beautifully. =

This is because kanji originally came from China, and the characters brought with them their Chinese pronunciation. But their meaning also has a native Japanese pronunciation. Tricky!
=First we had to learn how to hold our "fude"...=
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More about shodo [|here]
||  || ====Sometimes when you visit a temple in Japan, you see a calligrapher====

huge stone monument of a calligraphy brush.
|| Source:www.asahi-net.or.jp ||  ||

Click on the kanji characters below to discover how to write them. Numbers show which stroke follows which...

 * [[image:dragon.gif width="148" height="135" link="http://www.japanese-name-translation.com/site/worksheets/japanese_calligraphy_dragon.pdf"]] || [[image:happiness.gif width="148" height="135" link="http://www.japanese-name-translation.com/site/worksheets/japanese_calligraphy_happy.pdf"]] || [[image:friendship.gif width="149" height="136" link="http://www.japanese-name-translation.com/site/worksheets/japanese_calligraphy_friend.pdf"]] || [[image:life.gif width="149" height="136" link="http://www.japanese-name-translation.com/site/worksheets/japanese_calligraphy_life.pdf"]] || [[image:love.gif width="149" height="136" link="http://www.japanese-name-translation.com/site/worksheets/japanese_calligraphy_love.pdf"]] || [[image:soul.gif width="149" height="136" link="http://www.japanese-name-translation.com/site/worksheets/japanese_calligraphy_soul.pdf"]] ||
 * ==Dragon - ryu== || ==Happy - sachi== || ==Friend - tomo== || ==Life - inochi== || ==Love - ai== || ==Soul - tamashii== ||

Some or our characters were in hiragana, some in katakana and some in kanji...

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Did we enjoy this session? - Hai! ||
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