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.

Chiang, Yee. Chinese Calligraphy: An Introduction to its Aesthetic and Technique . 3rd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973.

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, edited by Wang Youfen, 1-31. New Haven and London: Yale University Press; Beijing: Foreign Language Press, 2008.

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: HarperCollins, 1996.

Murase, Miyeko. “Flecks of Gold and Strips of Silver: Early Paper Decoration in Japan,” Orientations (October, 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.

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.

Seeley, Christopher. A History of Writing in Japan . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2000.

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.

Shimizu, Yoshiaki. “The Rite of Writing: Thoughts on the Oldest Genji Text,” RES 16 (1988): pp. 54-63.

Twine, Nanette. “Toward Simplicity: Script Reform Movements in the Meiji Period.” Monumenta Nipponica 38, no. 2 (1983): 115–132. 

 

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


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 Development of Modern 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 shosh ū j ōhō 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.

 

Tekagami and Calligraphy Video

by Tom Fischer and Aqsa Khaliq Khan

 

A Japanese and English bilingual webinar with a comprehensive introduction to kohitsu calligraphy fragments and tekagami. The webinar recording is available through the UCLA Library website --

Sasaki Takahiro. "The World of Kohitsu Tekagami." Japanese Studies and Rare Materials (Webinar Series). UCLA Library. October 20, 2020. https://guides.library.ucla.edu/japanese/webinar-series#s-lg-box-25035586.

 

An English webinar introducing the Oregon Tekagami and Yale Tekagamijō. The webinar recording is available through the UCLA Library website --

Akiko Walley, "Do All the Pieces Matter?: Calligraphy Fragments in the University of Oregon Tekagami," and Edward Kames, " The Yale Tekagamijō and the Digital Future of Tekagami Research." Japanese Studies and Rare Materials (Webinar Series). UCLA Library. October 23, 2020. https://guides.library.ucla.edu/japanese/webinar-series#s-lg-box-25049536.

 

A Japanese presentation on the sutra fragments in the University of Oregon collection --

Akiko Walley. "Kyōgire no kyōdō kenkyū oyobi daigaku kyōiku ni okeru riyō no kanōsei" 経切の共同研究及び大学教育における利用の可能性 [Sutra Fragments: Their Potential for Collaborate Research and Use in University Education]. International Online Workshop, Premodern Japanese Religion. August 8, 2020.

 

Making Your Own Tekagami Album

Mukai Miria. "Orijō no tsukurikata." Facebook. Accessed October 30, 2020. https://www.facebook.com/mukaimiria/videos/284113422603067/.

 

Practicing Japanese kana calligraphy for beginners

Kana calligraphy – Japanese hiragana alphabets

Example of kana calligraphy on shikishi paper

Movement of the brush close up

Examples in varying brush sizes and paper format