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Re: An example of Calligraphic Kuraw

From:Tim May <butsuri@...>
Date:Friday, June 14, 2002, 17:46
Barry Garcia writes:
 > I actually have an example of kuraw calligraphy uploaded. The word is a
 > transliteration of "auvixara" (news in Montreiano). But, it would be
 > written in the Latin alphabet as "awbichara" (i could have written it as
 > "awbisyara", which would closer approximate the Montreiano word, but hey,
 > i can do what i want ;))
 >
 > Anyway, here it is:
 >
 > http://student.csumb.edu/dh/garciabarryjames/world/aubichara.jpg
 >
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 >
 > http://student.csumb.edu/dh/garciabarryjames/world/garcia.jpg
 >
[...]

Very nice indeed.  The style (of the calligraphy more than of the
script) reminds me of the Japanese calligraphy on traditional
playbills.  (Which I don't know much about, and can't find any links,
but I remember seeing pictures in a book once.)