The problem of calligraphy 201210912 shungo sato

The problem of calligraphy 201210912 shungo sato

Such as the past, I has been put on the charm of calligraphy. This topic is about the problems faced calligraphy. Memories that went to cram calligraphy during his childhood, young people in recent years may not have shared.

Currently, the number of people to do calligraphy in Japan has declined. This tendency began to appear in the late 1990s. in particular, the tendency decline of youth has become remarkable. Turning an eye to calligraphy education of high school, there is that tendency certainly. Look at three selected culture subjects (music, art, calligraphy) of high school education, the students to take calligraphy least. In the calligraphy club, member has been steadily decreasing. Reduction of male member seems particularly striking. The graph below shows the number of people who participated in the calligraphy. There were nearly 7 million in 1997, fell to about 4 million people in 2007, in other words, it was reduced about 40 percent in 10 years. Countries that a sense of crisis in education is not only Japan. Away calligraphy is progressing well in China and Korea. 

 

What is cause of the unpopularity of calligraphy? Be mentioned as a major cause is the development of electronic device such as PC. Rather than calligraphy, people are becoming less “write”. For example, when you write a official document, almost use the electronics. Some university lecture, students take notes on the PC. When write a handwritten letter or postcard, some people seem to write out by hand from draft in the iPad and PC. Cause of the unpopularity of calligraphy is the background that didn’t have to write character politely.

Story is a little swerve, another influence came out by not writing. As a result of the “Public Opinion Survey on language version” FY 2011 has been announced by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. It is felt that it has been the most remarkable in this is nearly 70 percent of people “ability to accurately write kanji weak”. According to the survey, even if people over the age of 60 feel that, it has increased by 30 percent from 10 years ago. It is also matter of course, 10 years ago, 50s people will have more than 60 years now, many of them have already familiar with PC and cell phones. But Ability to write “kanji” declined, some people just never particularly troubled. Culture handwritten going obsolete is sad.