Good book, but may not be "for begginers"
This book is really useful to learn techniques of oriental calligraphy. However, since it teaches the regular style (kaisho), it may not be suitable to people who hasn't learnt easier styles (like tensho), as the regular style is the most difficult to understand and learn.
Nevertheless, the explanations are quite comprehensible and there are enough examples to achieve a good level of brush writing.
Good buy for beginners
Like the title promises, this is a good book for beginners. It has useful suggestions on how to begin and end the main strokes found in Shodo, as well as suggested kanji with how to write them and what they mean. I found it very helpful.
As promised: Basics for beginners
The title well describes the content. The focus is on the techniques with a short intro of the essential equipment. The reader is guided through a selection of some 50 characters with the emphasis on how to proceed stroke by stroke and how should the result look like.
This book is a good quick start but won't serve as a long-lasting reference. As soon as you find the art of shodou as the thing for you, you'll be looking for more in-depth and covering texts on the subject. Although somewhat narrow, all the content is useful - except a list of the equipment suppliers in the US.
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