
Online Cultural Course PiVOTAL

It is said that characters consist of three elements: shape, sound, and meaning, which refer to the shape of the character, the sound it makes, and the meaning it indicates.
Within a single character (ideogram), these three elements are not evenly distributed, and they are constantly fluctuating in a state of tension. Changes in each have a strong impact on the others.
How do they affect words and poetry? How is the style of writing or printing related to words? By tracing the history of Chinese characters, I hope to consider the poetry and power of characters.
Hiroyuki Koga
September 2022 - August 2023
First Period: Calligraphy and Characters (tentative title)
September 2024 - August 2025
Second Period: Modern Characters
Talking about letters
Schedule
September 2022 - August 2023 (ended)
Every third Saturday of the month, 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
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2022年
9月17日 「源氏物語」と書
10月15日 中世の和歌と書
11月19日 文字・言葉遊びと呪術
12月17日 日本近代文学と書・文字
2023年
1月21日 機械化される文字
2月18日 詩と文字とメディア
3月18日 作られる文字・消える文字
*4月は講師の都合により休講します
5月27日 メモをめぐって
(講師の都合により第4土曜日に)
6月17日 読めない文字
7月29日 文字と身体と場所
(講師の都合により第4土曜日に)
8月19日 文字とは何か
9月16日 残像の中の文字

Lecturer: Hiroyuki Koga
Hiroyuki Koga
Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1961. Graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Hosei University. Worked for a calligraphy publishing company (1985-1997), editing and producing magazines and books on calligraphy and art. After that, he became a freelancer. He is a visiting researcher at the Daito Bunka University Calligraphy Research Institute. His major project and editing work includes the Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Calligraphy (Kashiwa Shobo, 2010), and his publications include Reading Ancient Documents from Zero Knowledge (Gentosha, 2020), The Message of Letters and Calligraphy: A Cultural History from Graffiti to Kanji (Kosakusha, 2017), and The Secrets of Calligraphy (Asahi Press, 2017).
Personal website
https://hiroyukikoga.wixsite.com/gorgeanalogue
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