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In the forest of calligraphy -- an exhibition at The National Art Center, Tokyo. Several calligraphic styles can be seen. High on the back wall above the gallery visitor is kaisho (楷書, regular script); in foreground at the right edge reisho (隷書, official script, an earlier version of kaisho); behind the visitor sōsho (草書, literally grass writing), cursive script in which the strokes run together; and the large dark characters on the back wall are shōkeimoji (象形文字, pictographs: note the eye) which are the original, most ancient form of Chinese characters.

 

Some exterior and interior views of The National Art Center, Roppongi, Tokyo, with its curvy glass front:

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Taken on December 19, 2007