TY - BOOK AU - Ishikawa,Kyuyo ED - LTCB International Library Trust. ED - Kokusai Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo, Japan) TI - Taction: The drama of the chisel, stylus, brush in oriental calligraphy T2 - LTCB international library selection = SN - 9784924971318 PY - 2011/// CY - Tokyo PB - International House of Japan KW - Inscriptions, Chinese KW - Calligraphy, Chinese KW - Appreciation KW - Japan KW - Calligraphy, Japanese KW - History KW - Chinese language KW - Writing KW - Japanese language N1 - 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; 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 ER -