If Japanese art is a sports team, consider Ukiyo-e and calligraphy as their two players that simply go hand in hand. Ukiyo-e is an art requires the all skills needed in painting and sculpture as it is basically a combination of the two — you carve your design on the woodblock an you paint it as you please. Ukiyo-e is an art requires the all skills needed in painting and sculpture as it is basically a combination of the two — you carve your design on the woodblock an you paint it as you please. When the art form became huge in the 1600s, its pioneering artists created designs that were inspired by the following: Females, kabuki actors, folk tales, geography, and erotica.
Calligraphy, as we may all know, is an artistic style of writing. Japanese calligraphy’s early years were heavily inspired by the Chinese calligraphy; majority of the techniques and other basic principles are quite similar. The writing styles include seal script, clerical script, regular script, semi-cursive, and cursive. Among the primary tools for Japanese calligraphy are brush, inkstick, mulberry paper, and inkstone; the secondary tools are paper weight, cloth, and seal.