Fine Japanese Calligraphy

The Art of Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase

In the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth

始めに神は天と地を創造された (hajimeni kami wa ten to chi wo souzou sareta)

The sentence 始めに神は天と地を創造された is the first sentence in the Bible and is similarly written in all of my Japanese Bibles. The sentence consists of 始めに (read hajimeni) meaning "in the beginning", (read kami) meaning "God", the grammatical element (read wa) indicating that "God" is the subject of the sentence, (read ten) meaning "Heaven", (read to) a grammatical element meaning "and", (read chi) meaning "Earth", (read wo) a grammatical element meaning that the preceeding are the objects of the verb and finally the verb which consists of 創造 (read souzou) and sareta which is the past tense of される (read sareru) which is an honorific form of the verb する (read suru) which used to make souzou a verb.

Verify: 始めに神は天と地を創造された in the Japanese-English Dictionary

In the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth (始めに神は天と地を創造された) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
In the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth 始めに神は天と地を創造された hajimeni kami wa ten to chi wo souzou sareta Block Vertical VB5C
In the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth (始めに神は天と地を創造された) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
In the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth 始めに神は天と地を創造された hajimeni kami wa ten to chi wo souzou sareta Cursive Vertical VC4B
In the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth (始めに神は天と地を創造された) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
In the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth 始めに神は天と地を創造された hajimeni kami wa ten to chi wo souzou sareta Cursive Vertical VC5B
In the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth (始めに神は天と地を創造された) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
In the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth 始めに神は天と地を創造された hajimeni kami wa ten to chi wo souzou sareta Design Vertical VD3B
In the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth (始めに神は天と地を創造された) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
In the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth 始めに神は天と地を創造された hajimeni kami wa ten to chi wo souzou sareta Design Vertical VD6B
In the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth (始めに神は天と地を創造された) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
In the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth 始めに神は天と地を創造された hajimeni kami wa ten to chi wo souzou sareta Semi-Cursive Vertical VS4C

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