Ressources on Japanese/Kana handwriting
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 12:43 pm
So, there are a lot of ressources about how to learn kanji, but I find there are very few things about the minutiae of acquiring a good handwriting in Japanese, notably with hiragana.
For instances, most ressources completely fail to mention that there are multiple ways to draw many of the hiraganas; I'm not talking about alternative kana like the hentaigana, I'm talking about alternative ways to draw the standard kanas. For instance ふ is typically described as being made of four strokes, but there are many renderings of this letter where the first and second stroke and/or the third and fourth stroke are connected, creating at least four possible designs and distinct ways to draw it.
There seems also to be an important aspect of proper hiragana writing which is whether a given stroke should end in a stop (止める), a sweep (払う) or a return (かえる).
There's also the whole problem Renmen (連綿), the connection of several hiragana running together vertically.
Is there a good English-language book about this, or are most avalaible ressources on the subject in Japanese?
For instances, most ressources completely fail to mention that there are multiple ways to draw many of the hiraganas; I'm not talking about alternative kana like the hentaigana, I'm talking about alternative ways to draw the standard kanas. For instance ふ is typically described as being made of four strokes, but there are many renderings of this letter where the first and second stroke and/or the third and fourth stroke are connected, creating at least four possible designs and distinct ways to draw it.
There seems also to be an important aspect of proper hiragana writing which is whether a given stroke should end in a stop (止める), a sweep (払う) or a return (かえる).
There's also the whole problem Renmen (連綿), the connection of several hiragana running together vertically.
Is there a good English-language book about this, or are most avalaible ressources on the subject in Japanese?