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Ono no Michikaze or Ono no Tōfū (小野の道風 born in 894AD, Died in 966AD)is a prominent Shodoka (japanese calligrapher) who lived in the Heian Period (794-1185). One of the So-called Sanseki 三跡 (Three Brush Traces), along with Fujiwara no Sukemasa and Fujiwara no Yukinari. Tōfū is considered the founder of Japanese Style calligraphy or wayoshodo 和様書道. The name Heian may mean: The Heian Period, an era of Japanese history. ...
Calligraphy in a Latin Bible of AD 1407 on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ...
Life Michikaze was born in the present Kasugai, Aichi prefecture, as the grandson of a courtier-poet , Ono no Takamura. He was a Government official, a poet and a calligrapher. He provided highly distinguished calligraphic services for three emprors during his career: Daigo (reigned from 897 to 930), Shuzaku (reigned from 930 to 946) and Murakami (reigned from 946 to 967). Michikaze fame permitted him to serve , at the age of 27, in the Seiryoden, the residential quarters of the imperial court. Kasugai (春日井市; -shi) is a city located in Aichi, Japan. ...
As a recognition to his high skill, Emperor Daigo offered the Buddhist monk Kanken two volumes of Michikaze's works in 927, and urged him to take them with him on a voyage to China, and commend Michikaze’s calligraphic achievements to the Chinese.Michikaze had lost much of his sight by the time he died.
Works Ono Michikaze has taken the first step in Japanizing the art of calligrpahy, imported from China around the 5th century. His works were slightly influenced by the style of the legendary 4th-century Chinese calligrapher Wang Xizhi, however, he added his own refinments, that resulted in a softer feel with more freedom of movement than was common under the strictures of Chinese calligraphy. Wang Xizhi (303-361) is a famous Chinese Calligrapher in the 4th century AD. His most famous work is the Lanting Xu, the preface of a collection of poems written by a number of poets when gathering at Lan Ting near the town of Shaoxing in Zhejiang province and engaging...
He created ,Henceforth, the Japanese Style calligraphy (wayo) that was later refined by other two masters, Fujiwara no Sukemasa and Fujiwara no Yukinari. Wayo was accredited and practiced ,as a pure Japanese art form, until the mid-19th century.
Michikaze showed great diligence in his works, which resulted in grandiose character forms, and powerful lines. None of Michikaze's Kana calligraphy are extant. A number of extant kanji works are believed to be by Michikaze, but only a few are positively attributed. One of the well-known works ascribed without much evidence to Michikaze is a draft for an inscription on a byoubu (Japanese folding screens)now mounted as a handscroll in Tokyo Imperial Household collection. It was executed in semi-cursive script (gyosho),and consisted of ten poems by Michikaze’s contemporary Oe no Asatsuna. Michikaze did also contribute in many meibutsu-gire (famous calligraphic works)of the Heian era, among wich a scroll containing forty-nine waka poems from the twelfth volume - "Poems of Love" - of the early-Heian poetry anthology, Kokin Wakashu. Among his last works are 11 letters, in one of which he bemoans the evanescence of life. The name Heian may mean: The Heian Period, an era of Japanese history. ...
Waka (å’ŒæŒ) or Yamato uta is a genre of Japanese poetry. ...
Trivia In the 20th October 2000 (Heisei 12), an 80¥ "Willow and frog" stamp was issued in Aichi prefecture , depicting Ono Michikaze watching a leaping frog and a frog. It is said that Michikaze has regained the willpower to continue his career as a calligrapher by watching a frog jumping again and again to reach a willow sprig.
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