Shodō is the Japanese word for calligraphy. It means not just penmanship, but the Way, or Path of writing. In China and Japan, Shodō has long been regarded as one of the most important forms of art. Most of the languages of the world use phonetic symbols, but except for the earliest languages there are hardly any that use hieroglyphs, pictographs or ide…
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