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Каллиграфические (со-)общества как форма существования искусства каллиграфии Японии в ХХ в.
Calligraphic societies can be considered as a basis for SHODO as modern art establishment.
They are quite numerous in Japan and different in many senses. These societies make regular
exhibitions, publish their monthly journals, and doing all these during quite a period of time,
they preserve and develop written styles and manners. So, in some sense, single calligrapher
doesn’t exist as an “art item”; most often he signs the manner of the society he belongs to.
In this paper we take one thick branch (Mainichi shodokai) from the tree of contemporary
Japanese SHO, tracing its history to the fi rst “pure” calligraphc event in 1890. Calligraphy
tended to derive from painting and emerge as special new art form. Goals, styles and scale
they represented were quite different before World War II and after the war. Chinese infl uence
on Japanese SHO, occurred in the end of 19th century, was incredibly important and still is
(Northern Wei KAISHU, bronze, oracle bone, etc.).