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Calligraphy with a female voice: meet the guardian of an ancient Japanese script shaped by women

Calligraphy with a female voice: meet the guardian of an ancient Japanese script shaped by women

by Talking Humanities | Jun 25, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement

Kaoru Akagawa, a Master of Japanese calligraphy and guardian of the Kana Shodo (Women Hand) script, discusses her work and why it is her ‘duty to preserve this old tradition’ and bring it to the world’s attention. As a guest of the Book and Print Initiative at the...
#PoTW: Writing women: reviving Kana Shodo (‘Woman-Hand’)

#PoTW: Writing women: reviving Kana Shodo (‘Woman-Hand’)

by Talking Humanities | Jun 24, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, PotW

To celebrate National Writing Day, the Book and Print Initiative at the Institute of English Studies has invited Kaoru Akagawa to tell the story of Kana Shodo, a forgotten female script. It was developed and used by noblewomen to express themselves freely within the...

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