title: Poetics of Japanese Calligraphy of Kana
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metadata.value: Aganina, Nadezhda S.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Tretyakova, Maria S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-03-20T10:34:31Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-03-20T10:34:31Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.value: Aganina, Nadezhda, and Maria Tretyakova. “Poetics of Japanese Calligraphy of Kana”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 10, no. 1 (2020): 89–105.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2020.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17253
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: There has been little research concerning Japanese calligraphy in Western art history. Even
  in Japan the calligraphy of syllabic scripts kana has been actively studied only during the last
  ten years. The complexity of the study lies in the fact that the works of kana calligraphy are
  usually written in old Japanese, combined with cursive Chinese characters (‘mixed writing’),
  which requires special training even from a Japanese researcher. Since the calligraphy of kana
  is tightly connected with the poetry of waka and haiku, within this paper we analyze it in its
  relation to the history of traditional Japanese poetry. The objective of this study is to define
  the specific nature of kana calligraphy, which reflects a special ‘poetic sentiment’ inherited
  from waka and haiku. In this research we compare kana with Chinese calligraphy characters
  and discover that kana calligraphy is fluid in principal, matching the aesthetics of waka,
  which has a flowing of meanings, as a rule. We also analyze the later influence of haiku on
  kana calligraphy and conclude that haiku partly reverts the latter to kana Chinese calligraphy
  characters (where scripts can be written separately). In this paper we analyze the works of the
  most famous Japanese calligraphers who specialized in kana: Ono-no Michikaze (802–853),
  Fujiwara-no Yukinari (966–1028), Goho Hibino (1901–1985). We conclude that a distinctive
  feature of kana calligraphy in waka is sensual beauty while calligraphy in haiku is more
  restrained and simple. The results of the research are considered to be important not only as
  a theoretical basis for further investigations of kana, but they also present the grounds for a
  general reconsidering of the European art of writing as well.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 10; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Japanese calligraphy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Japanese poetry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: poetic sentiment
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: calligraphy of kana
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: waka
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: tanka
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: haiku
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Poetics of Japanese Calligraphy of Kana
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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