Likewise, in a fourth-grade calligraphy class, there was nary a hint of giggling as students practiced writing characters.
In the kitchen, a little girl's first-grade calligraphy prize, dated 2008, still hung on the wall, next to a photograph of a boy in his baseball uniform.
"I'm still very thankful to my sixth-grade teacher for teaching the entire class calligraphy," Yoshida said.
It's a form of calligraphy".
Taken a calligraphy class?
"I decided to take a calligraphy class.
Hoping to call attention to the book, Mr. Mason sent it to some reviewers wrapped in high-grade paper, with the opening stanzas of "The Odyssey" in calligraphy, and to others, including The New York Times Book Review, inside a custom-made miniature wooden Trojan horse.
The group was to conduct a one-week program at Landis and D'Ippolito Intermediate Schools for sixth-grade students that was to begin with a dance performance on Monday, and would include lessons on calligraphy, landscape painting and the art of paper cutting.
Ms. Nagasawa, the calligraphy teacher, remembered the boy, Shun Konishi, whom she had taught at school since he was in first grade, as fond of cats — so fond, in fact, that he kept strays, sometimes against his parents' wishes.
The anonymity of exam candidates guarded against fraud and favoritism by those who could judge papers based upon handwriting and/or signature calligraphy; a bureau of copyists was tasked with the job of recopying all the candidates' papers before grading.
(For information on Chinese calligraphy, see calligraphy).
