Ono no Michikaze, Japanese calligrapher (b. 894)
Ono no Michikaze or Ono no Tōfū (小野 道風, 894 – February 9, 966) was a Japanese calligrapher who was a prominent Shodōka (Japanese calligrapher) during the Heian period (794–1185). One of the so-called Sanseki 三跡 (Three Brush Traces), along with Fujiwara no Sukemasa and Fujiwara no Yukinari, Michikaze is considered the founder of Japanese style calligraphy or wayōshodō (和様書道) and popularly extolled in Japan as the "reincarnation of Wang Xizhi."
He was also known as Yaseki Tōfū.
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