Some months ago I went to a Japanese calligraphy introduction lesson. There the sensei told us that if we wanted to practise at home we could download the font he made from the web and then print a single character on a sheet. I've found it very beautiful and a lot more useful that the usual typographical fonts.
Here's the link:
http://www.shodo.it/downloads.html
just click on '4 - Font Nagayama '
and unzip it in your fonts folder.
Bye
