Forever Young in Japanese Calligraphy — 9 Hand-Brushed Designs

永遠の若さ (eien no wakasa)

永遠の若さ (eien no wakasa): eternal youth. 永遠 eien is eternity, の makes it an attribute, 若さ wakasa is youth, the noun of 若い, young, a word already in the chronicles of 720. This is the noun phrase, not the blessing may you stay forever young, and the noun is what the Japanese sources use: translators reached for 永遠の若さ when Plato's forms in Eucken, Rodin's models and Apollo's grief for Hyacinthus needed a word, from 1912 on, and a beauty manual borrowed it within the decade. A buyer who hears Dylan or Alphaville in Forever Young is getting that as well.

Verify: 永遠の若さ in the Japanese-English Dictionary

Forever Young (永遠の若さ) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Forever Young 永遠の若さ eien no wakasa Block Vertical VB5C

Forever Young (永遠の若さ) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Forever Young 永遠の若さ eien no wakasa Cursive Vertical VC4B

Forever Young (永遠の若さ) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Forever Young 永遠の若さ eien no wakasa Design Vertical VD4B

Forever Young 永遠の若さ eien no wakasa Design Vertical VD4C

Forever Young (永遠の若さ) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Forever Young 永遠の若さ eien no wakasa Semi-Cursive Vertical VS4C

Forever Young 永遠の若さ eien no wakasa Semi-Cursive Vertical VS4D

Forever Young 永遠の若さ eien no wakasa Block Horizontal HB3A

Forever Young 永遠の若さ eien no wakasa Cursive Horizontal HC3A

Forever Young 永遠の若さ eien no wakasa Semi-Cursive Horizontal HS3A

About the Designs

Each design is Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase's hand-brushed calligraphy of the word or phrase on this page, delivered as a PDF you can print. Every PDF includes the line art, so a tattoo artist or a craftsperson can work from the outline as well as the brushed image.

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