calligraphists

Updated: August 19, 2026

This inscription had been composed and written by a high Buddhist prelate, Seikan, reputed to be one of the greatest scholars and most skilful calligraphists of his time. It was inconceivable that such a man should err flagrantly in the use of the ideographic script.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era