Principles
Japanese calligraphy shares its roots with Chinese calligraphy and many of its principles and techniques are very similar. It is most often written with ink (墨, sumi?) on mulberry paper (和紙, washi?) and it recognizes the same basic writing styles: seal script (篆書, tensho?) (Chinese: 篆書 Chinese: zhuànshū); clerical script (隸書, reisho?) (Chinese: 隸書 Chinese: lìshū); regular script (楷書, kaisho?) (Chinese: 楷書 Chinese: kǎishū); semi-cursive (行書, gyōsho?) (Chinese: 行書 Chinese: xíngshū); and cursive (草書, sōsho?) (Chinese: 草書 Chinese: cǎoshū).
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