soumyou　草名

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

Also read souna. A signature in cursive script. During the Nara period, signatures were written in formal square kaisho 楷書 script. The style changed to semicursive or gyousho 行書 script during the Heian period, and later to cursive script, sousho 草書, where two characters were combined into one to form a symbol. During the Fujiwara period, this form of signature appeared in the opening paragraphs of letters. Considered to be similar to and perhaps an early form of a *kaou 花押.

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