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Kana Ichikawa Kana Ichikawa is a regular high level competitor at nation-wide calligraphy tournaments. In 2014 she placed second among all students in Japan at the 30th<\/sup> calligraphy exhibition hosted by Nippon Budokan and was awarded the Nippon Budokan Chairman Award. The exhibition is regarded very highly with participants ranging from children to individuals in their 90s.<\/p>\n “I have been participating in the exhibition since my first year of primary school so I am happy to receive this award. I started calligraphy in kindergarten. I enjoy getting better and better but it is thanks to my friends who participated with me, my passionate teachers, and support from my family and those around me that I have been able to make it this far.”<\/p>\n “\u790e” kanji written by Kana in her first year at Waseda<\/p><\/div>\n Through calligraphy, I came to understand that life is a never-ending learning process and chose life-long education as my specialization within the School of Education. It is said that teaching isn’t a one way process. Even during teaching exercises, there have been many instances where I learn something new from my student. I feel that growth comes from this two way process of teaching and being taught.<\/p>\n “I look up to everyone. My teachers, my classmates, and my juniors\u2026I have respect for all people. The novelist Eiji Yoshikawa once said “\u6211\u4ee5\u5916\u7686\u6211\u5e2b\u201d(roughly translating to “Everyone is my teacher”). With these words in mind, I want to not only continue my dedication towards calligraphy but also towards learning.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kana Ichikawa 4th year student at the School of Education Kana Ichikawa is a regular high level competitor at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[185,175],"class_list":["post-26841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-arts-en","tag-students-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26845,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841\/revisions\/26845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n4th<\/sup> year student at the School of Education<\/p>\n![\"ca2\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ca2.jpg\")