{{no footnotes, date=October 2019 The term ''Sanpitsu'' (三筆) or "three brushes" is used in Japanese to refer to a group of three famous

Heian period The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kanmu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). means "peace" in Japanese ...

calligraphers: *

Emperor Saga was the 52nd emperor of Japan, Emperor Saga, Saganoyamanoe Imperial Mausoleum, Imperial Household Agency according to the traditional order of succession. Saga's reign spanned the years from 809 through 823. Traditional narrative Saga was the ...

嵯峨天皇, 786–842. *

Kūkai Kūkai (; 27 July 774 – 22 April 835Kūkai was born in 774, the 5th year of the Hōki era; his exact date of birth was designated as the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the Japanese lunar calendar, some 400 years later, by the Shingon s ...

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.

Kan'ei Sanpitsu (寛永三筆)

Named for the Kan'ei period in which they flourished: * Honami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦, 1558-1637 * Konoe Nobutada 近衛信尹, 1565-1614 * Shōkadō Shōjō 松花堂昭乗, 1584-1639

Ōbaku no Sanpitsu (黄檗三筆)

Zen Chinese calligraphers who worked in Japan. * Ingen Ryūki, 隱元隆琦 1592-1673 * Mokuan Shōtō,木庵性瑫 1611-1684 *

Sokuhi Nyoitsu was a Buddhism, Buddhist monk of the Ōbaku Zen Schools of Buddhism, sect, and was also an accomplished poet and calligrapher. His teacher Ingen, Ingen Ryūki, Mokuan Shōtō and Sokuhi were together known as the "Three Brushes of Ōbaku" or Ō ...

, 即非如一 1616-1671

Bakumatsu no Sanpitsu (幕末の三筆)

* Ichikawa Beian (市河米庵) 1779-1858 * Nukina Sūō (貫名菘翁) 1778-1863 * Maki Ryōko (巻菱湖) 1777-1843

Meiji no Sanpitsu (明治の三筆)

*Nakabayashi Gochiku (中林梧竹) 1827-1913 *Kusakabe Meikaku (日下部鳴鶴) 1838-1922 *Iwaya Ichiroku (巌谷一六) 1834-1905

Shōwa no Sanpitsu (昭和の三筆)

*Hibino Gohō (日比野五鳳) 1901-1985 *Teshima Yūkei (手島右卿) 1901-1987 *Nishikawa Yasushi (西川寧) 1902-1989

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