Brushing Love 愛 ai in the old tensho style of Japanese and Chinese calligraphy with deep orange-red sumi 🙂
Ai is also fun to brush in the more flowing sosho grass style of shodo calligraphy, in a much more simplified form.
As well as love or affection or care, it can also mean craving or attachment.
We will find out more about this famous kanji character at our Zen Brush shodo group.