The East-West Nebula of Calligraphy

Autores

  • Ryuta Imafuku Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Palavras-chave:

visual communication, writing and image, interculturality, aesthetics of gesture

Resumo

The article examines calligraphy as an intercultural language and communicational process that transcends the boundaries between writing and image. Based on the analysis of Fernando Lemos’s work and the dialogue with artists and theorists such as Henri Michaux, Roger Caillois, Shiryu Morita, and Roland Barthes, Ryuta Imafuku proposes the concept of a “nebula of calligraphy” to describe the symbolic exchange between Eastern and Western visual cultures. Grounded in the Japanese principle of hisshoku, understood as the creative friction between gesture and matter, the text situates calligraphy as an aesthetic and communicational practice of the contemporary imaginary.

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Biografia do Autor

Ryuta Imafuku, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Anthropologist and cultural critic, is professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. A leading researcher of Creole culture and Archipelagic Studies, he presides over Amami Freedom University, a nomadic outdoor school that connects the archipelago of Amami, Okinawa, and Taiwan. Having spent time in Brazil as a visiting professor at the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of São Paulo (2000) and the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2001, 2003, 2008 & 2020), has constantly contributed to the development of Cultural Studies in Brazil, and to the dissemination of studies about Brazil abroad. He is the author of numerous books which include Mínima Gracia, The Heterology of Culture, ArchipelagoWorld, Henry Thoreau’s Wild School (Yomiuri Literature Prize), Sur proto-fotographie, etc.

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Publicado

2026-06-28

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Imafuku, R. (2026). The East-West Nebula of Calligraphy. GALÁxIA. Revista Interdisciplinar De Comunicação E Cultura, 51(1), e75589. Recuperado de https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/galaxia/article/view/75589

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v. 51 n. 1 (2026): Galáxia volume 51 2026

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