r/shufa

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!

I've finished my second piece for the calligraphy competition submission. I wanted to make it as large as the competition rules allow, just because GIANT CHARACTERS ARE SO COOL.

Unfortunately, I mixed up the lines, so when I'm mounting/presenting the works, I'll have to carefully swap them back into the right order.

寵辱不驚，看庭前花開花落；去留無意，望天上雲卷雲舒

No need to hurry.
No need to sparkle.
No need to be anybody but onesele.

The surname Dai (戴) can be traced all the way back to the Shang Dynasty.
That’s more than 2,800 years of history.