Ishikawa, Kyuyo,  1945- <br/><br/>
Taction :  The drama of the chisel, stylus, brush in oriental calligraphy / 
 Taction :  the drama of the stylus in oriental calligraphy 
Ishikawa Kyuyoh ; Transl. by Waku Miller. 
 - 1st English ed. 
 - Tokyo :  International House of Japan,  2011. 
 - xviii, 297 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - LTCB international library selection =  Chogin kokusai raiburari sosho ;  No. 29 .
 - LTCB international library selection ;  No. 29. .
<br/><br/> At head of title: LTCB International Library Trust/International House of Japan.  Translation of: Sho : hisshoku no uchu o yomitoku (Tokyo : Chuo Koron Shinsha, 2005).  Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Taction : the wellspring of calligraphic expression ; Reciprocity : the yin and yang of calligraphy ; Verticality : calligraphy's spiritual orientation ; Melody : regularity, irregularity, and both ; Storytelling : plot development through taction ; Rhythm : meterless and stepped taction ; Communication : the modes of expression ; Brush dynamics : upright and sideways, jabbing and caressing, pushing and pulling ; Architecture : how characters come together ; Dance : movement seen and motion sensed ; Protoscripts : calligraphy and design ; Margin : calligraphy's larger context. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9784924971318 4924971316 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Inscriptions, Chinese.<br/>Calligraphy, Chinese--Appreciation--Japan.<br/>Calligraphy, Japanese--History.<br/>Chinese language--Writing.<br/>Japanese language--Writing.