Juichi Yoshikawa
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Juichi Yoshikawa (吉川 壽一, Yoshikawa Jūichi, born 1943 in Fukui) is a Japanese calligraphist, or sho artist, who studied calligraphy formally under , and later with .[1] Yoshikawa's avant garde trademark "three and a half dimensions" style applies observation as the additional dimension. To an untrained observer, this approach might be characterized as artistic flamboyance known by the use of giant brushes and stadium-sized canvases[2] - or, as in the large 1990 Beijing installation, by almost completely covering the 5,000 square metres of Tiananmen Square.[3]
Yoshikawa's work has been presented throughout Japan, China, and the Middle East,[4] and he is the author of a 1993 French publication on his form, Sho.[5]
He has collaborated several times with the lyricist, Chris Mosdell, illustrating what are essentially poetic works with experimental calligraphy. The first collection, (2001 ), is an epic rhythmical chant densely type-set on the page with delicate and often simple brush-stroke accompaniments. The second publication, , couples verse by Mosdell with digitally stylized erotic shunga woodcut prints from the Edo Era overlaid with sensual calligraphy and ink-seepage creations by Yoshikawa. A full-color edition, originally published by in 1997, was fully color-enhanced and re-printed in 2008 by .
References[]
- ^ Planeta - Viaggio In Sicilia VIS3
- ^ World Shorinji Kempo Organization Archived 2009-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Al Rawi Newspaper | Calligrapher a stroke of genius[permanent dead link]
- ^ Embassy of Japan in the United Arab Emirates
- ^ Sho | ISBN 2-906962-71-6
- 1943 births
- Living people
- Japanese calligraphers
- 20th-century Japanese calligraphers
- 21st-century Japanese calligraphers