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In Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood he displayed formidable powers as a moralist, an ironist, a calligraphist of violence.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was mistress of six languages besides her own, a student of Greek, a superb calligraphist, an excellent musician.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great calligraphist, Afiq of Diarbekir, master of the riqa and the shikasta hands: also of the Peacock style, and of painting in miniature.

From Hassan : the story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the golden journey to Samarkand : a play in five acts by Flecker, James Elroy

In just this way I misunderstood my calligraphist at first, and I looked as sympathetic as I could.

From Not that it Matters by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)

Kobo Daishi is the most famous of all Japanese Buddhist teachers; famous alike as a saint, as an artist, and as a calligraphist.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)