In Japan, calligraphy is more than just writing—it’s an art form that requires patience, focus, and respect for tradition.

Ahn Jung-geun is best known for his dramatic assassination of Japan's first prime minister in 1909 at a railway station.

Some of the later pieces include diacritical marks to make them easier to understand for readers of Japanese, which adopted and later adapted Chinese characters (called kanji in Japan).

OLYMPIA, Wash. — When Japanese calligraphy artist Chiyo Sanada paints, there's more going onto the canvas than ink. She expresses herself when she creates — each brush stroke is a feeling.

It features three Japanese calligraphy artists, Bisei Fukushima Koshu, Michiko Hamasaki and Sogen Hirano, using giant brushes and buckets of ink to create spontaneous larger-than-life compositions ...

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