Calligraphy Brush and Ink Set

This set of high-quality calligraphy tools contains everything required for the practice of shodō, Japanese calligraphy. It includes a brush, handmade using 300-year old brush-making traditions from Nara, which is ideal for writing small characters, a safflower inkstick, an inkstone and an inkwell. The set comes in an elegant wooden box coated in black Echizen lacquer.

Size: L20 cm x W9 cm x H3 cm

Kansai

The Kansai region includes the second-most populated metropolitan area in Japan with its largest city Osaka. Kyoto and Nara, two of Japan’s former capital cities, are home to important temples and shrines and strongholds of intangible cultural heritage, such as the Kyoto textile weaving skills of Nishijin.