Sunday May 27, 2012

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Participants show off their works at the New Year calligraphy contest in Tokyo on Thursday.

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    some14some

    To me it looks like Picasso Artwork, difficult to understand and therefore difficult to appreciate.

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    MaboDofuIsSpicy

    At least in the foreground, there are no special skills from what I see. I think most Japanese have really lost their art sense with calligraphy. Nothing is flowing there. Plain hard brush strokes.

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    Blair Herron

    I think they are all students. I can see their grades written 小三(G3)~中二(G8)

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    Blair Herron

    G1 ひかり

    G2 はるかぜ

    G3 たつ年

    G4 正月の空

    G5 早春の光

    G6 春待つ心

    G7 強い意志

    G8 文化の創造

    Great work, kids (^-^)

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    Alice Mack

    I think people are being a bit harsh, I'd like to see them write as beautifully when they were that age.

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    oberst

    I think any 10 yr old kids from Hong Kong, Taiwan or mainland China can do better than that

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    BurakuminDes

    @ oberst - I think you are right - but you have to remember those kids in the other nations have had a head start on Kanji, which is why they are better at it than Japanese kids of that age. I think they look pretty nice - I'd hang any of them on my wall!

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    Fadamor

    So are different grades given a different phrase to write, based on the kanji they would have been expected to have learned by then?

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    NeoJamal

    I think any 10 yr old kids from Hong Kong, Taiwan or mainland China can do better than that

    It would be embarrassing for the Han race if they were bested in their own language by the Japanese who couldn't come up with their own text.

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