Welcome to the Free Beginner’s Guide To Shodo. This site provides essential basic knowledge for beginners to start Japanese calligraphy Shodo. All contents here is supported by the Japanese professional calligrapher Saisui SHIMODA. By learning them, you will be able to get a good foundation to write correct and beautiful Shodo. Do you want to be able to write beautiful Shodo? If so, all the lessons here will help you. Without further ado, let’s start!