Sunday, February 15, 2009

Japanese Calligraphy - Aki kureba 秋くれば


秋くれば
ときはの山の
松風もうつる
ばかりに身にぞ
しみけるいずみしきぶ

This is the first in a series of posts on Japanese calligraphy of poems written in kana かな. Some of the words written are not as per the poem but are Chinese characters (kanji 漢字) chosen to replace the kana (かな) characters because they have the same sound, such as in the last line, in which the Chinese character 希 is used to replace the kana き.

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