{"product_id":"musubi-originals-japanese-calligraphy-musubi-craft-kit","title":"Japanese Calligraphy MUSUBI Craft Kit","description":"\u003cp\u003eToday’s words, composed with the same brush made using \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003etechniques that date back 1,200 years. Experience \u003cem\u003eshodo\u003c\/em\u003e (Japanese calligraphy) at home with the Japanese Calligraphy MUSUBI Craft Kit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a small town in Shiga Prefecture, Hankeido has been making brushes for over 400 years. Now in the hands of sixteenth-generation Fujino Unpei, each of its Tenpyo brushes is still bound by hand with both bristles and paper, a category known as \u003cem\u003emakifude\u003c\/em\u003e, literally “wrapped brushes.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHankeido’s craftspeople bundle the core hairs together with thread, wrap them in \u003cem\u003ewashi\u003c\/em\u003e paper, add a layer of outer hairs, bind them with hemp thread, then finally seat the brush in the shaft and shape the tip.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMakifude are Japan’s oldest surviving style of calligraphy brush, and Hankeido never stopped making them over its four centuries of continuous operation. One dating back to the Tenpyo era (729–749 CE) is an imperial treasure held in the Shosoin Repository. It was recreated in 1979 by the fourteenth-generation Fujino Unpei at the Imperial Household Agency’s request. Now, a brush made in this same lineage arrives on your desk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe Tenpyo brush’s washi-bound structure holds a generous amount of ink, letting you write long, flowing passages before your next dip.\u003c!-- notionvc: 66ab2ead-e582-4dc8-8a97-7a90849b348a --\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ink stick (\u003cem\u003esumi\u003c\/em\u003e) is hand-crafted by Kinkoen, a family line of ink makers active since the Edo period (1603–1868 CE). The sixth and seventh generations continue their work in Nara, shaping the soot of Japanese red pine into ink sticks ready to grind against textured stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe inkstone (\u003cem\u003esuzuri\u003c\/em\u003e) is the work of Tosa Inkstone Iki, a workshop in the inkstone-producing region of Mihara, Kochi Prefecture. Here, craftspeople carve each Tosa inkstone one piece at a time from stone sourced from the mountains of Mihara Village.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sound of an ink stick moving across the inkstone. The earthy scent of the ink. A brush balanced between fingers and paper. What you compose is yours to decide. Take up a brush shaped by over a millennium of craftsmanship, and allow your own words to appear from your own hand. That time itself is at the heart of this set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKit includes:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTenpyo brush (small)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInk stick\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInkstone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWater dropper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrush rest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo-sided washi paper postcards: 20 sheets\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MUSUBI KILN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48464256958653,"sku":"MK-kit003","price":646.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0553\/0461\/8173\/files\/1-1-261005_scenecut_SUZ.47.jpg?v=1791527416","url":"https:\/\/musubikiln.com\/products\/musubi-originals-japanese-calligraphy-musubi-craft-kit","provider":"MUSUBI KILN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}