Hello! I am Suirei Narisawa.
I understand Japanese calligraphy has become popular in foreign countries.
You may associate the word "Japanese calligraphy" with some kind of art expressed on a T-shirt.
I imagine you feel Japanese calligraphy is something to appreciate rather than to actually create yourself.
Indeed, those Kanji characters drawn by skillful Japanese or Chinese calligraphers
with their soul are so powerful that you feel touched and fascinated.
But is that all Calligraphy is for?
It has been recently discovered that calligraphy has an unexpected therapic effect on people.
---- One day a student who had been looking for employment visited the
school to experience our trial class.
She looked rather down when she came as her job hunting was not going too well. She spent nearly one hour trying to draw one character - HITO (means human). She looked refreshed when she finished, so I asked how she felt. She said that as she was drawing, it felt like looking inside of herself and made her mind clear.
Soon after that she told me that she received a job offer from three companies.
If you compare her first and the last work, don't you think the last one is a lot more powerful and confident?
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After the lesson |
During the lesson
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Ms. Komatsu age 20 (no experience in calligraphy)
Her answers to the questionnaire
- Any problem with writing characters? My handwriting is peculiar and hard to understand
- Do you think your handwriting has changed? Yes (my feeling towards it changed)
- Has your impression of calligraphy changed? Yes (it has become real fun)
- Any comments on our discovery class? I haven't done it since my primary school and it reminded me of old days.
I believe my feeling towards characters has strengthened. Thank you for today.
- Comment
Ms. Komatsu being busy hunting for a job - it is a good time to reflect on herself and try to figure out who she is, her strengths and weaknesses.
Ms. Komatsu expressed that writing each of the characters with feelings
and emotions felt very fresh as it was almost like facing with herself.
We tend to use the word "HITO"(means human) quite casually but
it can be profound. After one hour, Ms Komatsu's "HITO" with
her feelings and emotions is now completed.
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Do you see what happened inside her?
You may know if you are familiar with psychology, calligraphy falls into the projective method.
Projective method is a psychological technique that analyzes a person's psychological state by looking at what he/she writes on a whim.
You probably think that therapy usually means detailed feedback from professional therapist.
But the projective method using calligraphy helps us feel and understand what
has been expressed in your work.
All I do is to help you grasp "something" that comes from your deep inside.
That is why we don't have a copybook.
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The purpose of our class is for you to look inside of yourself rather than trying to copy and write beautiful characters.
It is also to guide you to sympathize with others by understand yourself through group counseling.
My objective is not only to introduce you to Japanese culture, but also
to help you communicate with your inner world through which you give more
time to yourself, heal your mind and gain new power. |
My level of English is not that high but I believe I can convey a lot to you through inner communication.
Transferring from calligraphy of appreciation to calligraphy of emotion.
Hope you can gain mind healing and power
→ To enroll in the trial class
(Please note: I am a qualified industrial counselor and studied psychology at university,
but at class I don't provide any counseling other than using the projective method.
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