These Japanese Calligraphy Videos Are Fascinating

There's something very enthralling about watching Mantenka Hime, a Japanese calligrapher, work at her desk. Sora News 24 tells us that she's popular in Japan, where a fanbase supports her enormous talents. There's a lot to watch here:

Mantenka Hime’s videos are focused on visual examples, and often include an overhead view or her writing in a separate window in the video’s top left corner. As a result, even viewers who don’t speak Japanese can learn the proper order, number, and direction of strokes to write each character. Watch closely, and you’ll even be able to spot where she performs hane, the subtle flourish where the artists leaves behind brush strokes while drawing the bristles away from the paper at the end of certain strokes.

And thanks to the scientists in MIT who first thought of the concept of the internet in the 1960s, we get to experience the fine arts of so many cultures around the world. Verily, it is an uplifting tool for all humanity.