Shu: Write Kanji

Write kanji with a real brush, and get corrected the way a calligraphy teacher marks a page. You write each character with Apple Pencil, or a finger, in an ink that behaves like sumi on paper. When you lift the brush, your teacher looks, then marks in vermilion: a ring round the stroke that stopped where it should have flicked, the flick you should have made, and one word in the margin. Then you write it again, and get it right. WHAT SHU MARKS • Stroke order and stroke direction • Shape, against the form taught in Japanese schools • How every stroke ends: tome (stop), hane (flick) and harai (sweep), read from your Pencil's pressure and speed • Proportion, if you choose Teacher strictness Shu never marks a variant that Japan's official handwriting guidelines accept, and never puts more than three marks on a character. A SEAL BOOK YOU FILL Every kanji you write is kept on its own page of…