About Kana Waka Calligraphy
Kana Waka Calligraphy draws from the Sanjurokunin-kashu of Nishi Hongan-ji (c.1112), the supreme surviving album of Heian court writing. Its surfaces are tsugigami collages of dyed ryoshi paper, scattered with gold and silver leaf as sunago dust and kirikane cut-flake, over which flowing hiragana waka is brushed in black sumi.
The system never rests on plain white. Soft connected cursive drifts across decorated colour in a chirashi-gaki scatter — generous asymmetric margins, deliberate ma negative space, and the quiet luxury of gold flecks caught on a dyed-indigo field.
- Origin
- Kyoto, Heian court Japan
- Era
- Heian period; Sanjurokunin-kashu c.1112
- Key figures
- Ki no Tsurayuki · Ono no Komachi · Ariwara no Narihira · Fujiwara no Kinto
- Movements
- Wayo Japanese calligraphy · ryoshi decorated-paper craft · chirashi-gaki scattered-writing · waka poetics
Kana Waka Calligraphy design spec
Colors
Typography
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