May 5, 2022 –July 23,2022

Exhibit Hall (Upper Garden)

Exhibition Hours: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

(Hours subject to change during special events. Refer to niwa.org)

The Japanese Friendship Garden is honored to presents “The Legacy of Traditional Calligraphy”, curated by Befu Osawa who is a Master Calligrapher based in San Diego, CA.

Befu Osawa is a part of “Nihon Shodo Kenkyu Kai (Shoken)” which is one of the representative Shodo schools in Japan, where she studied traditional calligraphy writing. At Shoken, she studied and researched the history of Chinese/Japanese scripts. After moving to the United States, she researched modern scripts and taught beautiful calligraphy writing to a diverse range of students.

This exhibition will introduce the changes and history of Chinese and Japanese scripts. It will also show various style of Kanji letters that we do not usually see.