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      Table of Contents

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       A Personal Invitation by the Autho

       INTRODUCTION TO KANJI CALLIGRAPHY

       WHAT IS KANJI?

       THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF KANJI

       STYLES OF KANJI

       Kaisho

       Gyousho

       Sousho

       THE MODERN JAPANESE LANGUAGE

       OVERVIEW OF THE JAPANESE WRITING SYSTEM

       Kanji Characters

       The Roman Letter Alphabet (Romaji)

       Arabic Numerals (Sanyou suuji)

       Hiragana

       Katakana

       SPECIFICS OF THE KANA SYSTEM

       GOJYUU’ON 10

       Voiced Sounds (Daku’on)

       Half-Voiced Sounds (Handaku’on)

       Vowel Palatalization

       Geminate Sounds

       OTHER SOUND CHANGES AND WRITING VARIATIONS

       Long Vowels

       Small Characters

       Sequential Voicing (Rendaku)

       PRONOUNCING JAPANESE SOUNDS

       THE REPEAT SYMBOL

       ROMANIZATION METHODS

       PRACTICING KANA

       HIRAGANA CHART

       KATAKANA CHART

       THE STRUCTURE OF KANJI

       FORWARD

       BUILDING BLOCKS OF ENGLISH

       Level-1 Elements: Letters & Other Characters

       Level-2 Components: Word Roots & Affixes

       Level-3 Structures: Independent Words

       THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF KANJI

       Level-1 Elements: The Strokes

       Level-2 Components: Radicals

       Level-3 Structures: Kanji Characters

       RADICAL CHART

       KANJI PATTERNS

       RADICAL POSITIONS

       KANJI CATEGORIZATION & LOOKUP METHODS

       KANJI PRONUNCIATION METHODS

       Onyomi

       Kunyomi

       Jinmeiyomi

       THE TOOLS OF CALLIGRAPHY

       THE BRUSH

       INK & INDIA INK

       THE INK STONE

       CALLIGRAPHY PAPER

       THE PAPER WEIGHT

       THE BRUSH MAT

       THE BRUSH HOLDER

       WRITING POSTURE & HOLDING THE BRUSH

       WRITING POSTURE

       BALANCE OF THE SHOULDERS

       USING THE BODY

       HOLDING THE BRUSH

       BRUSH PRESSURE & STROKE SHAPE

       BASIC BRUSH STROKE TECHNIQUE

       GENERAL

       THE BRUSH STROKE

       COMMON TRAITS OF THE 8 BASIC STROKES

       The Head

       The Body

       The Tail

       PRACTICING THE BASIC STROKES

       THE EIGHT BASIC STROKES LIBRARY

       BASIC STROKES PRACTICE PAGES

       BEGINNING KANJI CALLIGRAPHY

       THE STROKE ORDER

       GENERAL ORDER OF CONSTRUCTION

       CHARACTER SHAPE VARIATIONS

       THE KANJI CHARACTER LIBRARY

       ABOUT THE LIBRARY

       WRITING PREPARATIONS

       RENDERING THE CHARACTERS

       SINGLE CHARACTER SECTION

       DOUBLE CHARACTERS

       CHARACTER INDEX

       CHARACTER INDEX BY MEANING

       Index