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The term Sanpitsu (三筆) or "three brushes" is used in Japanese to refer to a group of three famous Heian period calligraphers:
Emperor Saga 嵯峨天皇, 786–842.
Kūkai 空海, 774–835.
Tachibana no Hayanari, 橘逸勢 c. 782-842.
Later groups of calligraphers were named in imitation of the original Sanpitsu.
The term Sanpitsu (三筆) or "three brushes" is used in Japanese to refer to a group of three famous Heian period calligraphers: Emperor Saga 嵯峨天皇, 786–842...
Sokuhi were together known as the "Three Brushes of Ōbaku" or Ōbaku no Sanpitsu. Sokuhi was born in Fuzhou, Fujian, Southeast China. He was born into a...
calligraphers in groups of three referred to as Sanpitsu, or three brushes, during the Bakumatsu period (Bakumatsu no Sanpitsu). His mature calligraphy style was conservative...
with his disciples Muyan and Sokuhi Nyoitsu, he was one of the Ōbaku no Sanpitsu ("Three Brushes of Ōbaku"). He is known to have carried paintings by Chen...
is honored posthumously as one of the outstanding calligraphers called Sanpitsu (Three Brushes) and as a kami at Kami Goryo Shrine in Kyoto. Hermann Bohner...
Nobutada (1565–1614) and Shōkadō Shōjō (1584–1639) – the three Kan'ei Sanpitsu (寛永三筆) – he is considered one of the greatest calligraphers in the wayō...
grandfather of Ono no Michikaze, one of the three famous calligraphers (三筆, sanpitsu). In 834 he was appointed to Kentōshi, but in 838 after a quarrel with...
distinguished as one of the Kan'ei Sanpitsu (寛永三筆) or "Three Brushes of the Kan'ei period", named in imitation of the Heian period Sanpitsu. He is a son of Konoe Sakihisa...
Fujiwara no Sukemasa, known as Saseki from the character 佐 in his name. Sanpitsu, a similar group of renowned calligraphers Japan. Monbushō (1893). History...