The value interests of Chinese paintings are shifted from painterliness to calligraphic quality, and the theoretic framework centered on the aura of ink-brush is established since then.

中国绘画的价值趣味也从绘画性转向了书法性的表达，并建构起以笔墨韵致为中心的理论框架。

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It produced an intensely Elitist, nobly disciplined and masculine culture whose emblems were the ink brush, the samurai sword and the tea bowl.

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But if brevity is to be deplored, what should we make of haiku, sonnets, and ink-brush calligraphy?

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Sunlight shines through the paper in the sliding doors, casting latticework shadows on the tatami mat floor in the room where Hiroko Harada arranges the tools of her art: paper, brush, ink and inkstone.

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