Today's words are "yane", which means "a roof", and "fuyu", which means "winter" season.
This one was difficult and therefore I have only one writing of this word in Hiragana. It's the word "yane".
Here my sensei held my hand and we wrote together.
This is my sensei's writing. The numbers are the steps what to write first.
This is the word "fuyu". These first two below are my best.
Here my sensei held my hand again.
My sensei's writing.
Some of the characters in Hiragana are easy and some are really difficult to write nicely. It's not for everyday. A person has to be in the flow otherwise it won't work. That's what I found out about calligraphy so far.
Calligraphy in Japanese is called Shodo. I'm using a brush and black ink on special calligraphy paper. The paper is very fine, soft, and the size is bigger than A4. I have white and also brown paper. I like the brown better. My writing looks better on the brown paper.
I'm learning two ways of writing. One is called Kaisho and the other one is Gyosho. I like Gyosho better because it is smooth, and more like art. Kaisho is the proper printed version of writing.
My sensei is always giving me to write simple words in Hiragana and Kanji. My sensei's writing is in orange, and the orange circle that my sensei draws over my writing means that I did well.
Shodo is awesome! I really enjoy it very much. You can try with me if you like.