I'd like to know if there are some material for reference as well as informative ones. I'd just love finding good books explaining extensively the styles, information about historical calligraphers and their masterpieces, the origins and transformations that kanji have undergone, and historical evidence of these things.
Yeah, the way I'm putting it makes it sound way easier that it must be, but actually I have not even the basic means to get seriously started into this matter. I mean, I do it like a hobby too, as all my peers that practice it do, but I'd really like to understand the art historically and conceptually as well, not just say things based on guesses.
There are some sites that offer really interesting stuff, but still the info seems to me way too sparse yet, not to mention that the sources are not always indicated, and when they are, not always accessible to me - be it because they are in pure japanese so I can't cope well with yet, be it because they are simply non-acessible here where I live at all.
But then again, such things as I wrote up there are almost in an academic level of demanding, hahaha. However, I thought whether someone here, just like you, 宮本勝利 , had practiced calligraphy so I could just hear from them about their experiences, which would be amazingly enriching already.
That said, could you say how was the way you practiced calligraphy back then, 宮本勝利 ? What materials did you use to copy, method, etc.? Did you received any info aside the brush technique? These kind of things, you know, or any other you find interesting to share. As you see, I have very little on this topic (practically only my sheer liking to the art) so anything that you or anyone here could or would like to say about calligraphy would be just nice to me to read.
Thank you =)