Artworks

Ah! Yokokawa National School

Artwork · Inoue Yūichi · 1978 · calligraphy

Inoue Yūichi (1916–1985), a wild man of the brush who made brushes from brooms and even used his head and hands, lets the mass of characters be nothing but the expression of his brush — in many ways the natural outcome of fifteen hundred years of Japanese calligraphy. 1 Mason 2005, p. 381, fig. 454. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.