The Facilitating Mechanism of Tang Calligraphy on the Formation of Shodo Style in Japan during the Heian Period in the Framework of Cross-cultural Exchange

Abstract

Tang calligraphy, as the southern part of East Asian calligraphy, had a profound influence on the formation and evolution of Shodo styles in Japan during the Heian period. In the context of cross-cultural communication, the study is to organize and complete the calligraphy style dataset including Tang Dynasty calligraphy images and Japanese Shudo images. The stack self-encoder in deep learning algorithm is used as the feature extraction algorithm, and the Softmax classifier is used for style recognition, and the recognition test is conducted on the expanded dataset for the characteristics of the five calligraphic Chinese character styles. On this basis, the dual influence of Tang Dynasty calligraphy on the aesthetics and style of Japanese Shudo fonts is further explored. The experimental results show that the recognition accuracy of this paper's method on five calligraphic Chinese character styles reaches 98.95%, and the recognition accuracy on cursive and running script styles is significantly higher than that of other recognition methods, which proves the validity of this paper's method on the recognition of calligraphic styles. At the level of influence, Tang Dynasty glyphs (which are one of the factors influencing the foundation of Japanese Shudo aesthetics), replacement lines and unified structures have a significant impact on Japanese Shudo font styles.