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Setsumon Kaiji 說??????, written by Kyoshin ???? around 100 CE, is on the web at last. It lists some 9,353 small seal scripts ??? and 1,163 alternate forms in the great seal ???, Warring States scripts ?Õ?, contemporary scripts ????, or odd scripts ?; and their etymologies and sounds as understood by the later Han dynasty scholars of the ancient classics.
an elephant ??
a dancing shaman(ess) with two tassels ??
a car ??
to come ??
This a modern seal for "All American Teacher's of Japanese Association."
Can anyone make these out? . I can tell some, but a little fuzzy on the others ...
Before the discovery of the turtle shell & bone inscriptions ?b?????? (oracle bone inscriptions ?b???m?) by Wang, Yi Rong in 1899, this was the only book to look up the oldest forms of chinese characters preserved in a complete character set.
Although there exist around 3,000 bronze inscriptions 金?? and around 5,000 oracle bone inscriptions ?b????, they lack authoritative interpretations to this day being a relatively young field of epigraphy. Only about 1,000 common oracle bone inscriptions are analyzed with much certainty.
For those into Japanese calligraphy or seal inscription deciphering, this is a very useful and essential reference. Full text of Setsumon Kaiji 說?????? photographically reproduced at www.gg-art.com.
http://www.gg-art.com/imgbook/index.php?bookid=53
For accumulative definitions, see ttp://redhmong.8u8.com/wy/dictionary/chinese.html
For the wikipedia Shodo ???? article, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shodo
(Basic reference, but tensho ⽏? and reisho 隸?? are not mentioned here.)
For a brief "visual" illustration of the evolution of scripts,
see p. 11 of Wang, William http://www.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/~wsywang/publications/chinese_lang.pdf
Liou, Joyce http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~jliou/ch_written_system/written.htm
or http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/MWH/11042_Handout2.html
(though the first two images "金??" and "?b????" should be reversed.)
For an overview of ancient Chinese characters in general,
see http://www.logoi.com/notes/ancient_characters.html
For Zhang Yongming's Tensho ⽏? Skills on VCD,
http://www.china-guide.com/Merchant...e_Code=C&Product_Code=vc00zhz&Category_Code=V
Tenji ⽎? (small seal style writing in brush) for writing with brush on paper or steles, and tenkokuji ⽍??? (seal inscription in tensho) for inscription on seals are in fact only two variant applications of the small seal script tensho ⽏?.
'Hudeji' ?M?? and 'kakuji' ?p?? are only descriptive font names given by fontographer Ayumi Takeshima to distinguish between his/her(?) fonts with rounded strokes of the brush and the straight, angled carving style (sic. incidentally, not necessarily). In principle the word hudeji ?M?? may include tenji ⽎?, but it can also include all the other styles of brush strokes.
?M??
?p?? http://homepage1.nifty.com/tanpopolion/images/crest/kakuji1_2.gif
For traditional seal carving,
see http://www.vocdesign.com/help/about.php
an elephant ??
a dancing shaman(ess) with two tassels ??
a car ??
to come ??
This a modern seal for "All American Teacher's of Japanese Association."
Can anyone make these out? . I can tell some, but a little fuzzy on the others ...
Before the discovery of the turtle shell & bone inscriptions ?b?????? (oracle bone inscriptions ?b???m?) by Wang, Yi Rong in 1899, this was the only book to look up the oldest forms of chinese characters preserved in a complete character set.
Although there exist around 3,000 bronze inscriptions 金?? and around 5,000 oracle bone inscriptions ?b????, they lack authoritative interpretations to this day being a relatively young field of epigraphy. Only about 1,000 common oracle bone inscriptions are analyzed with much certainty.
For those into Japanese calligraphy or seal inscription deciphering, this is a very useful and essential reference. Full text of Setsumon Kaiji 說?????? photographically reproduced at www.gg-art.com.
http://www.gg-art.com/imgbook/index.php?bookid=53
For accumulative definitions, see ttp://redhmong.8u8.com/wy/dictionary/chinese.html
For the wikipedia Shodo ???? article, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shodo
(Basic reference, but tensho ⽏? and reisho 隸?? are not mentioned here.)
For a brief "visual" illustration of the evolution of scripts,
see p. 11 of Wang, William http://www.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/~wsywang/publications/chinese_lang.pdf
Liou, Joyce http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~jliou/ch_written_system/written.htm
or http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/MWH/11042_Handout2.html
(though the first two images "金??" and "?b????" should be reversed.)
For an overview of ancient Chinese characters in general,
see http://www.logoi.com/notes/ancient_characters.html
For Zhang Yongming's Tensho ⽏? Skills on VCD,
http://www.china-guide.com/Merchant...e_Code=C&Product_Code=vc00zhz&Category_Code=V
Tenji ⽎? (small seal style writing in brush) for writing with brush on paper or steles, and tenkokuji ⽍??? (seal inscription in tensho) for inscription on seals are in fact only two variant applications of the small seal script tensho ⽏?.
'Hudeji' ?M?? and 'kakuji' ?p?? are only descriptive font names given by fontographer Ayumi Takeshima to distinguish between his/her(?) fonts with rounded strokes of the brush and the straight, angled carving style (sic. incidentally, not necessarily). In principle the word hudeji ?M?? may include tenji ⽎?, but it can also include all the other styles of brush strokes.
?M??
?p?? http://homepage1.nifty.com/tanpopolion/images/crest/kakuji1_2.gif
For traditional seal carving,
see http://www.vocdesign.com/help/about.php
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