In this period, an innovative air was brought to the calligraphic world as well due to the educational policy of the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), drastically changing Chinese and Japanese calligraphic styles.
この時代は江戸幕府の文教政策によって書道界にも革新の風が起こり、唐様・和様に大きな変化があった。