Japanese Calligraphy "Water"

[alliejohanne06]

mizu :D

[BizareShow]

i think thats chinese XD LOL

[Shutup99100]

@BizareShow Japanese kanji is chinese words with a different pronunciation

[alliejohanne06]

@Shutup99100

yup. it's really different.

in kanji it can be explained.

"on" reading is the chinese reading ang "kun" reading is the japanese reading.

[if i'm not mistaken. :D

[UpForDanceroid]

Looks like eternity in Chinese.

[lewiszim]

Amazing! Every stroke looks very elegant.

[xXxCookieCoryxXx]

awesome :) I love water kanji Cuz im Aquarius :))

[GachaTaru2011]

Very nice^^

[Justl3lFun]

the lady in the of the video is beautiful, but something tells me "don't mess with her"

thank you for the video ^^

[eweccewe]

@Justl3lFun

That it because she is Kunoichi :)))

[eweccewe]

@Justl3lFun

That it because she is Kunoichi :)))

[BTeerapongK123]

Beautiful. It is exactly the same as the Chinese character for water

[Ninjabot1994]

You know what's ironic? You're painting/writing the kanji "Water" and your strokes are fluid like a serene river. The music just adds to the greatness of it.

[pikachuangel]

Your kanji videos are so much more soothing than all the other videos I find. Not just the music, but the way you paint it. <3

[dragonslayeramnesia]

what i wanna know is what does Toshiko mean?

[Lighttkun]

mizu ^^

[Kr4zi4ur0mg]

Looks like how it's written in chinese.

[jawsjin24]

ji jay...this is really cool

[thewildone409]

wow, How do you make the ink so perfect?

Mine always comes out so much lighter and much more thin.

[Girlladyflowers]

This is great what about "Mother Nature" :)

[Thegamerguy101]

This is really cool, but for some reason I can't figure out the intelligent pattern in the world, like seperate letters or sounds. Although, i'm sure japanese people think the same of our writing. xD

[Thegamerguy101]

Word* sorry xD

[HornPlayer983]

Well this is a kanji... essentially, to my understanding, a Chinese character. Japanese has three written languages: Kanji 水(water), Hiragana　みず (water), and katakana　ミズ (water again). This different written languages are used all at the same time for different parts of speech. I first learned Hiragana and then katakana and then some Kanji. Because the Kanji are the Chinese characters there are a lot to learn.

[HornPlayer983]

So to get around to it you do not exactly see a pattern of sounds or anything in the kanji. These characters evolved from ancient symbols that look like what they represent.  So the symbol for water perhaps used to look like a water drop or something else, or perhaps still looks like something water related but because its supposed to look like someone you won't find a pattern or anything. What you're probably thinking more of is Hiragana and katakana.

[HornPlayer983]

first some Kanji that look like what they mean...

川 means river

山 means mountain

月 means moon

一 means one

ニ means two

but anyways back to Hiragana and Katakana. These are syllable based languages that follow a patter, you can probably find a syllabary, a chart of all the symbols, easily on the internet. So the two languages use symbols that represent a syllable/sound. For example み, hiragana, is pronounced "mi" and ミ , katakana, is also pronounced "mi".

[HornPlayer983]

So if you're looking for sounds and words and patterns look for Hiragana and Katakana, not so much Kanji.  If you learn the Hiragana and Katakana you will see symbols from these in the Kanji but that means nothing about how they are pronounced (the symbols for Katakana and Hiragana were just taken from Kanji)...

I hope this was easy to understand and not overcomplicated or anything... Japanese is a beautiful and fun language... but it is also complicated and hard...

[ibjamed]

@HornPlayer983 -im sorry but u just lost me after "This different written languages are used all at the same time for different parts of speech." it still looks like chinese to me.(lol.cuz i am!) anyway thanks-i get it..sorta..ok not really.not like im gona use kangi in my life

[Thegamerguy101]

@HornPlayer983 Ahh, okay. I knew that, I just forgot for some reason. lol

[DTGtaihojutsu]

Beautiful work Toshiko . Very relaxing music and nice art work . 5 + stars my friend

Rick

[Girlladyflowers]

WOW!

What a great pretty picture!

Hehe

[aznpryder]

Rete will u stfu dam its choson who copied he said in description

[rete125678]

this is a video from "ChosonNinja". Copying other's videos is pathetic.

[NaruSilver]

@rete125678 actually this video was posted by toshikokunoichi then on chosonninja

p.s. i'm not saying chosonninja is pathetic i like his videos too.

[Ippiki0okami]

Mizu!

[ReapeR88666]

Ohayo =)

can i make a request for some words to be written in Japanese? if i can, then pleas let it be "humility" "hajime" "love" "heaven" and "passion", i thank you so much and i look forward to hearing from you.

blessings

[huynh12312]

I wanna learn how to write like that.

[NinjaStudent1]

Thanks for your lessons Toshiko, 5 stars!

[sublime361]

i was trying to draw this last night. Thanks!

[unclecow]

thank u ma'am that was lovely "bow"

[taigyokushodan]

poetry in motion

[SignorFOX]

wow

[plus24seven]

its sooo! WONDERFUL!!!

[SokudoJutsu]

Very beautiful!!!

[SuperKixxx]

very nice

[VickThorrable]

Mizu desu ka ?! Sugoi ^_^ ! This actually seems the most easy ( but i stink at caligraphy ^_^ ) !

[makettaja]

another great video, thanks :) its gonna take me so long time to learn these :/

[pheenix42]

@makettaja Indeed, anything worth learning always takes a long time to do!