Sentence examples for calligraphy brush from inspiring English sources

It pulled the paint like a calligraphy brush, making an undulating line.

Until the 20th century, the calligraphy brush was the dominant writing instrument.

"TeZukA" uses dancers' movements as one would use a calligraphy brush in this video homage to the pioneering Japanese artist.

Animals figure in other chapters: a cat's tail is used as a calligraphy brush, and there is a quizzical rooster and a deadpan turtle.

Although her animations are digitized — usually by her younger sister and primary assistant, Imoimo — they begin with hundreds of drawings, made by Tabaimo with pens or an automatic calligraphy brush.

The kanji announcement, broadcast live on TV, was made this week at Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto, where the head priest, Seihan Mori, wrote a giant version of the character with an ink-soaked calligraphy brush.

It has a long history of brush making, originating in the early 19th century with Japanese calligraphy brushes.

Today, the town of 26,000 is responsible for 80 percent of all brushes manufactured in Japan, including calligraphy brushes, paintbrushes and makeup brushes.

"I started getting involved in brush making from about the age of 18 because my parents did it," producing calligraphy brushes, said Mr. Takemori, 81.

In the 1960s, he started producing makeup brushes, responding to a growing demand from Japan and the United States, and a few years later stopped making calligraphy brushes to focus entirely on cosmetic brushes.

The décor is Far East chic (silk walls, ornamental calligraphy brushes), but the diners are pure Manhattan: equities traders, corporate lawyers and, last week, an Iranian-born wine connoisseur who turned up with her cousin and Connecticut-bred companion.