Further Reading
by Tom Fischer and Aqsa Khaliq Khan (edited by Akiko Walley)
Studies on Calligraphy in English
Barnet, Sylvan, and William Burto. “Some Western Thoughts on Shodō: The Way of Writing.” In The Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection, 25-38. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002.
Carpenter, John T., ed. The Fujii Eikan Bunko Collection, Imperial Calligraphy of Premodern Japan: Conventions for Poems and Letters from the Palace. Kyoto: Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University; Norwich and London: Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, 2006.
Carpenter, John T. "Handwriting Empowered by History: The Aura of Calligraphy by Japanese Emperors." In The Fujii Eikan Bunko Collection, Imperial Calligraphy of Premodern Japan: Conventions for Poems and Letters from the Palace, edited by John T. Carpenter, 14-54. Kyoto: Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University; Norwich and London: Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, 2006.
Chiang, Yee. Chinese Calligraphy: An Introduction to its Aesthetic and Technique, 3rd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973.
DeCoker, Gary, and Alex Kerr. "Yakaku Teishō: Secret Teachings of the Sesonji School of Calligraphy." Monumenta Nipponica 49, no. 3 (1994): 315-329.
Eubanks, Charlotte. Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture & Medieval Japan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011.
Fong, Wen C. “Prologue: Chinese Calligraphy as Presenting the Self.” In Chinese Calligraphy, translated and edited by Wang Youfen, 1-31. New Haven and London: Yale University Press; Beijing: Foreign Language Press, 2008.
Kawashima Masao. "Social Contexts for the Practice of Collecting Ancient Calligraphy (Kohitsu) in Medieval Japan." In The Fujii Eikan Bunko Collection, Imperial Calligraphy of Premodern Japan: Conventions for Poems and Letters from the Palace, edited by John T. Carpenter, 158-161. Kyoto: Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University; Norwich and London: Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, 2006.
Kawashima Masao. "Kohitsu and Kiwame: Their Historical Meaning." In Urban Images of Kyoto: Kyoto Cluture and its Cultural Resources, Nihon bunka dejitaru hyumanitizu, vol. 5, edited by Tomita Mika, Kodachi Masaaki, Matsumoto Ikuyo, and Sugihashi Takao, 119-131. Kyoto: Nakanishi Shuppan, 2012.
Kersey, Kristopher W. “The Mediation of Death and the Temporality of the Scroll (Japan, c.1200 CE).” In The Continuous Page: Scrolls and Scrolling from Papyrus to Hypertext, edited by Jack Hartnell, 123–139. London: Courtauld Books Online, 2020.
Kieschnick, John. “Blood Writing in Chinese Buddhism.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 23 no. 2 (2000): 177-194.
Kornicki, Peter F. The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 1998.
Manguel, Alberto. A History of Reading. London: Harper Collins, 1996.
Murase, Miyeko. “Flecks of Gold and Strips of Silver: Early Paper Decoration in Japan,” Orientations 33 no. 8 (2002): 36-43.
O’Neal, Halle. Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.
O'Neal, Halle. "Inscribing Grief and Salvation: Embodiment and Medieval Reuse and Recycling in Buddhist Palimpsests." Artibus Asiae 79 no. 1 (2019): 5-28.
Pekarik, Andrew. "Japanese Calligraphy and Self- Expression." Apollo 121 no. 276 (1985): 84-89.
Rambelli, Fabio. “Materiality and Performativity of Sacred Texts.” In Buddhist Materiality: A Cultural History of Objects in Japanese Buddhism, 88-128. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.
Sakomura, Tomoko. “Calligraphy, Character, and Sensibility in The Tale of Genji.” In Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature: Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji, edited by James McMullen, 175-200. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Seeley, Christopher. A History of Writing in Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2000.
Shimizu, Yoshiaki. “The Rite of Writing: Thoughts on the Oldest Genji Text,” RES 16 (1988): 54-63.
Shimizu, Yoshiaki, John M. Rosenfield, et al., eds. Masters of Japanese Calligraphy 8th-19th Century. New York: The Asia Society Galleries and Japan House Gallery, 1984.
Twine, Nanette. “Toward Simplicity: Script Reform Movements in the Meiji Period.” Monumenta Nipponica 38 no. 2 (1983): 115–132.
Yonemura, Anne. "The Art of Calligraphy and the Wakan rōei shū." In Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing: Wakan rōei shū, translated and annotated by J. Thomas Rimer and Jonathan Chaves, 260-270. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Studies on Tekagami/Kohitsu in Japanese
Fujii Takashi, and Tanaka Noboru. Kokubungaku kohitsugire nyūmon 国文学古筆切入門. 3 vols. Osaka: Izumi Shoin, 1985-1992.
Hibino Hironobu. Hajimete no kohitsugire はじめての古筆切. Osaka: Isumi Shoin, 2019.
Ishizawa Kazushi, Kuboki Hideo, Sasaki Takahiro, and Nakamura Kentarō, eds. Nihon no sho to kami: kohitsu tekagami “Katabami-jō” no sekai 日本の書と紙 古筆手鑑『かたばみ帖』の世界. Tokyo: Miyai Shoten, 2012.
Kinoshita Masao. “Tekagami” 手鑑. Nihon no bijutsu 日本の美術 84 (1973).
Kohitsu Tekagami Taisei Henshū Iinkai, eds. Kohitsu tekagami taisei 古筆手鑑大成 . 16 vols. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1983.
Komatsu Shigemi. Kohitsu 古筆. Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1972.
Kyoto National Museum. Koshakyō: Seinaru moji no sekai 古写経 聖なる文字の世界. Kyoto: Kyoto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2004.
Masuda Takashi, and Hibino Hironobu, eds. Keian tekagami 慶安手鑑. Kyoto: Shibunkaku, 2017.
Murakami Suitei, and Fukuda Yukio. Kana ryōshi no tsukurikata 仮名料紙の作り方. Tokyo: Nigensha, 1994.
Murakami Suitei, and Takashiro Kōichi, eds. Kohitsu kantei hikkei: kohitsugire to kiwamefuda 古筆鑑定必携 古筆切と極札. Kyoto: Taikōsha, 2004.
Munakata Katsumoto, ed. “Tekagami no sekai” 手鑑の世界. Special issue, Sho ni asobu 書に遊ぶ 8 (September, 2001).
Tanaka Noboru. Kohitsu no tanoshimi 古筆の楽しみ and Zoku kohitsu no tanoshimi 続・古筆の楽しみ . Tokyo: Musashino Shoin, 2015 and 2017.
Tokyo National Museum, et al. Wayō no sho 和様の書. Tokyo: Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Yomiuri Shinbunsha, NHK, NHK Promōshon, 2013.
Unno Keisuke. “Tanzaku no tanoshimi” 短冊の楽しみ. Shomotsugaku 書物学 6 (2015): 2-7.
Select Tekagami Examples
Kanbokujō 翰墨城. MOA Museum of Art, Aichi prefecture. Museum online collection catalogue: http://www.moaart.or.jp/collections/090/
Minu yo no tomo 見努世友 . Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo. Museum online collection catalogue: http://idemitsu-museum.or.jp/collection/calligraphy/kana/01.php
Moshiogusa Hiragino 藻塩草 . Kyoto National Museum. National Treasures & Important Cultural Properties of National Museums, Japan (e-Museum): http://www.emuseum.jp/detail/101051
Ōtekagami 大手鑑 . Yōmei Bunko, Kyoto. For a brief introduction and picture online, see Emi Chizuko. “Tokubetsu-ten, ‘Wayō no sho’ o tanoshimu tameni: kanshō-hen 2, yondai tekagami” 特別展「和様の書」を楽しむために − 鑑賞編２四大手鑑 . Tokyo National Museum, June 30, 2013. https://www.tnm.jp/modules/rblog/index.php/1/2013/06/30/%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5%E5%B1%95%E3%80%8C%E5%92%8C%E6%A7%98%E3%81%AE%E6%9B%B8%E3%80%8D%E9%91%91%E8%B3%9E%E7%B7%A82/
Tekagami-jō 手鑑帖 . Yale University. “The Tekagami-jo 手鑑帖 Project”: https://tenthousandrooms.yale.edu/project/tekagami-jo-shou-jian-tie-project
A Mirror of Gathered Seaweed Calligraphy Album (Mokagami 藻鏡 ). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum online collection catalogue: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/65085
Historical context
Eubanks, Charlotte, "Circumambulatory Reading: Revolving Sutra Libraries and Buddhist Scrolls." Book History 13 (2010): 1-24.
Gerhart, Karen M. “Kano Tan'yū and Hο̄rin Jο̄shο̄: Patronage and Artistic Practice.” Monumenta Nipponica 55 no. 4 (2000): 483–508.
Kawai, Masatomo. “Reception Room Display in Medieval Japan.” In Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan 15th-19th Centuries, edited by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, 32-41. London: The British Museum Press, 2002.
Lowe, Bryan D. Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017.
Program for Teaching East Asia, University of Colorado, Boulder. “Lesson Plans for High School,” in Imagining Japanese History. Accessed October 2, 2020. https://www.colorado.edu/ptea-curriculum/imaging-japanese-history.
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. "Key Points in the Developments in East Asia," in Asia for Educators. Updated 2019. http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/main_pop/kpct/index.html#kp2.
Reference/Database
Haruna Yoshishige. Kohitsu daijiten 古筆大辞典 . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 1983.
Kohitsugire shoshū jōhō database 古筆切所収情報データベース : http://base1.nijl.ac.jp/~kohitu/.
Yale University Library, "Japan Studies: Japanese Traditional Book Culture workshop": https://guides.library.yale.edu/c.php?g=295893&p=3757511.