Demonstration Art

Calligraphy

This week's calligraphy for practice is longer than usual. It consists of three words. The first word in katakana is furamingo for flamingo. It occupies the entire right-hand column and the first character of the left-hand column. The hiragana character to in the middle of the left-hand column means "and." Finally, the kanji character at the bottom left is su for nest. This is the way that traditional Japanese is written: from top to bottom starting at the right and proceeding toward the left.