r/shodo

https://discord.gg/wDAFVTW3Hd

https://tegakituesday.com

Hello! I'd like to share a project that I've been running on Discord for the last 5 years, 手書きの火曜日 (Tegaki Tuesday). It's a weekly Japanese handwriting challenge where every Tuesday there is a new prompt to submit to, usually picked from a stanza or two of a Vocaloid song or some other music. You write the challenge, submit, and then get feedback.

For the last couple months we've also been running a daily Kanji of the Day challenge. It basically works the same way, but instead it's a random daily kanji that's automatically posted for you to practice. The difficulty (and obscurity) of kanji ramps up through the week, culminating in the hardest kanji on Tuesday, so this keeps things entertaining (it's not just Joyo kanji).

We also have the entirety of 百人一首 (Hyakunin Isshu) available as challenges you can practice https://tegakituesday.com/hyakunin-isshu You are able to create your own challenges as well to share with the community and submit to!

I've been running this for a while but haven't really ever tried to advertise, so I'd be really happy if this could be helpful to more people.

Skimming through old clipart libraries, this is the only calligraphy that appears.
Having trouble identifying.

If it's kana, the "ya" looks weird and it's hard to parse the rest of the ten & horizontal strokes. A "ko" followed by a (mild hentaigana) "shi" with dakuten would also make sense. Then again, I can't find much at all about this clipart, no mentioins of yakoji, yagoji.

If it's a character/multiple, I can't think of which radical the "ya" would appear as, even if the first two ten look like a cover for something. The final strokes might resemble "kokoro" but I'm really not convinced.

I'm not too sure how I'd identify something like this on my own, so any insight into your process for confirming is appreciated :)

Let's figure out if there's any reason THIS was the only shodou clipart microsoft thought to include!

got this from Ehon Saiyuki's translation of the journey to the west (page 12)

https://journeytothewestresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Saiyuki-1835-No-1.pdf

I was copying this work, but I can't find the original anymore. Can anyone help me find it please?