I am currently on a break from learning japanese but I still want to try my hand at writing out individual kanji for fun and I came across the Buddha Board while browsing facebook marketplace. This thing has apparently been around for a helluva long time but I had no clue about it.
Anyway, the idea of the buddha board is that you have a white sheet of rice (?) paper against a black background and when you dab a wet paintbrush (included) on it then it becomes see through and turns black and so you can effectively draw on the canvas. And it evaporates fairly quickly, so the canvas gets erased on its own.
The one I got stands on its own, but because it's the small version it doesn't come with a water well. In the bigger versions you apparently get a water well and stand that makes it convenient to just dip the brush and draw. Anyways, since this can sit next to my monitor (about 5" in width/height) it feels like it's more convenient to draw kanji now, compared to a paper and pen which felt finite / limiting because of space/ink/etc.
It's no 原稿用紙 but that's fine since I'm not writing in earnest to improve. Just something to keep me from losing touch with japanese completely.
What other tools have you used for writing kanji?
by GimmickNG