Monday, August 13, 2018
Calligraphers of Instagram Part 4 Uchiyama Kenichi
Calligraphers of Instagram Part 4 Uchiyama Kenichi
Welcome to Part 4 of Calligraphers of Instagram, and this week were keeping things super simple with Uchiyama Kenichi.
The Japanese way of giving names is to put the family name (Uchiyama) first, and then the given name (Kenichi).
Thats the Japanese way, so Ill keep it that way too.
Also, I have a friend with exactly the same name, so Ill call my friend Kenichi Uchiyama and the calligrapher Uchiyama Kenichi. It keeps things simple.
He posts clean, minimalist Japanese handwriting on a separate handwriting Instagram account.
Im not even sure if you can call it calligraphy, its so gloriously simple. But hes got nice handwriting, and I love having it in my feed.
????????konnichiwa ("hello!")
Challenge time!
Can you read these next three?
Did you get it? These are the three Japanese "alphabets": ???? hiragana, ???? katakana, and ?? kanji. Each is written in its own alphabet, of course.
What I love most though is Uchiyamas series of Japanese placenames:
??????Hokkaido
???????Nagoya-shi (Nagoya city)
I love the balance and simplicity in his writing. Its not big or ostentatious. It has a quiet confidence, I think.
Follow Uchiyama Kenichi (or Kenichi Uchiyama!) on his writing-only Instagram account at @u.handwriting
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