Juju Kurihara - Sosekido

December 2, 2013

Calligraphy with Children

Sosekido gives classes not only adults but also children. Spanish TV channel, TVE2 came to film our class.https://youtu.be/8Lkzh98yMbs

November 30, 2013

The 21st Japanese Speech Contest in Madrid

The 21st Japanese speech contest was held in Madrid in January 2010. I made a collaboration of Shakuhachi player, Antonio Enzan Olías and the singer….

November 25, 2013

New Year Cards 2014 are available

2013 is nearly to the end. People will soon (or already) start running around for the Christmas preparations. In Japan, Christmas has been…

November 16, 2013

Neon Calligraphy at Japanisches Event at Fellini Gallery in Berlin

On the 15th of November, there was an event, Japanishces Event at Fellini Gallery in Berlin. There was a little shop selling Urushi cups and bowls….

November 4, 2013

Juju Kurihara in Mango Salute Magazine

Mango Salute is an online magazine where you can find many greeting cards for every occasions. There are also interesting articles mainly about…

October 20, 2013

Japanisches Event in Berlin in 2013

Hello everyone. I hope you are enjoying this autumn moment before we enter the really severe winter season, well at least for Berliners….

October 12, 2013

Calligraphy shop, Gyokusen-do – 玉川堂

One of the best things about being in Japan is there are so many calligraphy shops. Comparing to a decade ago, less people…

September 13, 2013

Beiju is 88 years old

I received a phone call from my mother a week ago. She told me that my grandma will be 88 years old in…

August 17, 2013

Visitor from Italy

Early this month, I had an enthusiastic calligrapher visited from Italy. Paolo Marino is a calligrapher and also an Aikido-ka. He travels a lot…

June 24, 2013

July´s task – Kaisho Advanced

Sosekido has already started practicing July´s task. Let´s begin with Kaisho (楷書) for advanced level. You can read this poem as “洲渚遠く陰映し (Shuusho tooku…