Ono Gado - Ono Gado

A calligrapher of the Meiji and Taisho periods. He was the son of Ono Seiemon Shigeaki, a martial arts instructor in Fujieda, Suruga Province (Shizuoka Prefecture). His given name was Kannosuke. His pen name was Magane. His pen name was Gadō. He also had other pen names such as Konohana-no-ya and Niyanagi-kyo-shujin. When he was a boy, his father died, and he moved to Tokyo to become a clerk at the Ministry of Finance, where he supported his family and, through hard work, eventually established a family. He published "Kokinshu Jo" (Preface to the Kokinshu) in 1890 (Meiji 23), and the following year he began working at the Peerage Girls' School (later known as Joshi Gakuin), where he worked diligently for over 30 years, his whole life. During that time, he was an active member of the Naniwa-tsu-kai (established in 1890), which was the foundation for the revival of the ancient kana style of the Meiji and Taisho periods, along with Tadashinai Tada and Shugyo Oguchi, and he himself founded the Konohanaka-kai and worked to promote calligraphy. His style of calligraphy was original, elegant, and clear, and was self-taught using ancient calligraphy texts and ancient brushes, and was publicized under the name of the Gadō-ryū style.

[Minoru Furuya]

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明治・大正の書家。駿河(するが)国（静岡県）藤枝の武芸師範、小野清右衛門成命の男。名は鐗之助(かんのすけ)。字(あざな)は間金(まがね)。鵞堂はその号。斯華廼舎(このはなのや)、二柳居主人の別号もある。少年のころ父と死別、上京して大蔵省の書記となり、家計を支えるとともに、苦学が結実してついに一家をなした。1890年（明治23）に『古今集序』を出版、翌年に華族女学校（後の女子学習院）に奉職して以来30余年間、終生精勤した。その間、明治・大正の上代様仮名復興の基盤となった難波津会(なにわづかい)（1890結成）に多田親愛(ただしんあい)、大口周魚(おおぐちしゅうぎょ)らとともに加わって活躍、自らは斯華会(このはなかい)を創設して書道興隆に努めた。その書風は古法帖(こほうじょう)、古筆などを独学した流麗平明な独自のもので、鵞堂流の名で喧伝(けんでん)された。

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