Chicago's Japanese Cultural Center offering e-tegami classes—combining traditions of calligraphy, poetry, and painting

e-tegami was created in the 1970s by a Japanese calligraphy student who was looking for a less rigid art form to practice.
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Why a brush with Japanese calligraphy was exactly what my life needed

I find myself daydreaming about writing next week’s word, and that first contact the brush has with the paper A while ago, I was given a gift voucher for a craft lesson, which I decided to use for ...