Japanese Calligrapher Takumi

Takumi Tohgu (Japanese: 東宮拓実; born: https://www.talenttwit.com/view/tohgutakumi.html), better known online as Japanese Calligrapher Takumi (Japanese: 書道家 東宮たくみ), is a Japanese calligrapher known for his skilled calligraphy with various fonts or pens, and calligraphy ASMR.
==Personal life==
He was born on December 31 1982, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa.
He got married on May 1 2010, but there isn't much known about his wife.
==Careers outside of YouTube==
He started learning calligraphy when he was 5.
On 2001, he graduated from Shinjo High School, and he entered the department of Art and Cultural Studies in Tokyo Gakugei University, and he majored calligraphy.
From 2002 to 2003, he studied abroad in Beijing Language and Culture University.
On 2006, he graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University.
On 2007 and 2008, he opened his personal exhibition.
From 2008 to 2012, he helped some Japanese TV programs with writing letters.
On 2009, he opened the calligraphy school in Ginza, Tokyo.
Since 2018, he has published 3 books that help people with improving their writing skill.
==YouTube==
===Early days===
On January 20 2012, he posted his first video, which he teaches how to write horizontal and vertical lines properly in Japanese calligraphy. Since then, he started posting a lot of educational videos about calligraphy, most of them being how to write letters properly. 
On February 2013, he started the "How to write hiragana" series. It was originally supposed to consist 10 videos, but it got extended to 13 videos. The last update was on November 2 2013.
Since November 6 2013, he started writing miscellaneous stuff, such as song lyrics, people's names, and random words he felt like writing. Out of those, name calligraphy became a long-lived series, with the last update being April 8 2020. 
On November 9 2013, he started the "How to open and manage a calligraphy school" series. It has never been updated since April 30 2014.
On November 19 2013, he started the "Construction of Kanji" series. It had less frequent updates than other series, and it has never been updated since February 28 2015.
On August 9 2014, he started the "How to write kanjis you learn in the first year of Japanese elementary school" series. He stopped the series after posting 27 videos in 13 days, but on March 27 2015, he revamped the series, with 5 new videos. This series was concluded on April 8 2015.
===Growth===
On September 4 2017, he posted the video "The most difficult Chinese characters in the world". This video got popular, especially among kanji users, and now it has over 450K views.
On December 2 2017, he posted the video which he tries to write the letter 卍 in Japanese calligraphy. Since 卍 was a very unusual kanji for Japanese calligraphy, and it was also a trendy word in Japan, it blew up. Now, it has over 2.5M views.
Since then some of his new videos started to blow up, and hit 1M+ views.
Since 2018, he started introducing strange names with calligraphy, a lot of them got popular, and they constantly got over 100K views.
On August 29 2018, he started the calligraphy ASMR series. It was originally just ASMR related to calligraphy, but later its concept has changed to making sound that sounds like a popular music or sound effect, by writing with a pen.
On March 17 2019, he started covering English alphabets and other languages, and he started to gather more international viewers.
Since late 2019, he started to constantly get 100K+ views or even 1M+ views. He started trying various fonts and pens while simulating various situations. This style continues to todays' videos.
On April 11 2021, he posted the video which he writes alphabet in print and cursive font. It became viral, and it hit 20M+ views.
==Trivia==
*He loves manga and anime.
**When he was a child, he used to watch Dragon Ball and Evangelion a lot.https://twitter.com/tohgutakumi/status/1184688918148481025
*His favorite kanji is 愛. It means "love".https://twitter.com/tohgutakumi/status/910396271348744192
*Pickled turnips are one of his favorite foods.https://twitter.com/tohgutakumi/status/695094519927173120
*His favorite Japanese oden ingredients are egg and Japanese radish.https://twitter.com/tohgutakumi/status/658493360986980352
==Subscriber milestones==
==Gallery==
Japanese_Calligrapher_Takumi_2013.png|Takumi in 2013
Japanese_Calligrapher_takumi_Trying_Font.png|Takumi trying a font
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