Calligraphy is the Oriental formative arts that are going to express the beauty of a letter by writing it. Unlike penmanship, handwriting, it's not aimed for the acquisition of a letter. The origin is old china, not current china. With a writing brush and a sumi (black ink), it points at a thing expressing on paper mainly.

A friend of calligraphy has flower arrangement, tea ceremony, judo, kendo, archery, and so on.

You can start calligraphy with simple and cheap. You don't need to go to a special institution, and it's not demanded manners that much. Of course it 's not necessary to strengthen a body.