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#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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