Echizen Washi

It's really sad to hear our territorial issues with China.

Every time we have some problems with China, I always try to remember my experience in China in 1996 and 1999. I learned brush ink art in Hangzhou and Beijing then. The teachers respected my personality a lot to decide what I should learn. To learn brush stroke, one of the teachers recommended me to learn ` Yan Zhenqing `, who lived in Tang dynasty as a well-known callygrapher, just because his style could be very suitable to my broad-minded individuality.

But in Japan, Yan Zhenqing tend to be avoided to learn for the beginners because it is not the basic.

( photos: my first practice in China in 1996)