一路順風 ichiro junpū Everything is Going Well

一路順風 is the wish at the gangway, said to the one who is leaving. It fits a graduation, a new post, a voyage begun, or a life about to start somewhere else. May the wind be at your back the whole road. The wish belongs to a departure, to someone setting out on a road.

The sister of 一路順風 is 順風満帆, junpū manpan, fair wind and full sail, the wish for the voyage itself, sold here as its own design.

一路順風 is composed of the words 一路 (read ichiro) meaning "the whole way" and 順風 (read junpū) meaning "favorable wind".

一路順風, a traveler's blessing, is found as early as a thanksgiving a Tang governor wrote in 858; the Ming and Qing novels made it the stock phrase of a good journey, and by the late Qing it was said at partings.

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