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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

A Study on Characteristic of Calligraphy Characters Part 2 Case of One Character of Calligraphy Letter “Kanji” and “Hiragana”

Authors : Zelong Wang, Mengyuan Liao, Kayo Yokota, Riichi Hagihara, Zenichiro Maekawa

Published in: Digital Human Modeling. Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management: Human Modeling

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

During long history of Kanji in china, “Kaisho” (Regular script), “Gyosho” (Semi-cursive script), “Sousho” (Cursive script) were born from 3rd century to 5th century. The Japanese improved a kanji and devised a Hiragana originally. “Kaisho” letter is form not to transform. “Gyosho” letter is the form transformed a little than it. “Sousho” letter is the form transformed more. Hiragana letter has thin, long and smooth form. 4 kinds of calligraphy letters are analyzed by using proposed system and characteristic of calligraphy letters were thrown into relief from three viewpoints. The technique to evaluate the characteristic of the shape of the writing brush style quantitatively is proposed in this study. This study is classified into three parts. Part-2 treats one character of calligraphy Letter “Kanji” and “Hiragana”. 188 characters are analyzed by using the proposed technique in part-1.

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Footnotes
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Takada, C.: Dictionary for five types of calligraphy letters, Houshokai (1998)
 
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Metadata
Title
A Study on Characteristic of Calligraphy Characters Part 2 Case of One Character of Calligraphy Letter “Kanji” and “Hiragana”
Authors
Zelong Wang
Mengyuan Liao
Kayo Yokota
Riichi Hagihara
Zenichiro Maekawa
Copyright Year
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21073-5_43