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Not Saying Is A Flower

言わぬが花 (iwanu ga hana)

Not saying is the flower.

言わぬが花 (iwanu ga hana): not saying is the flower.
Not Saying Is A Flower (言わぬが花) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Not Saying Is A Flower 言わぬが花 iwanu ga hana Vertical Block VB4C
Not Saying Is A Flower (言わぬが花) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Not Saying Is A Flower 言わぬが花 iwanu ga hana Vertical Cursive VC4B
Not Saying Is A Flower (言わぬが花) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Not Saying Is A Flower 言わぬが花 iwanu ga hana Vertical Design VD5B
Not Saying Is A Flower (言わぬが花) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Not Saying Is A Flower 言わぬが花 iwanu ga hana Vertical Semi-Cursive VS4C
Not Saying Is A Flower (言わぬが花) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Not Saying Is A Flower 言わぬが花 iwanu ga hana Horizontal Block HB4A
Not Saying Is A Flower (言わぬが花) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Not Saying Is A Flower 言わぬが花 iwanu ga hana Horizontal Cursive HC4A
Not Saying Is A Flower (言わぬが花) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Not Saying Is A Flower 言わぬが花 iwanu ga hana Horizontal Semi-Cursive HS4A

About the Designs

More about 言わぬが花

Some things are better unsaid; said outright they lose their flavor and their grace. The proverb is about the beauty of the unsaid, and silence is golden, its English equation since 1904, is its prudent cousin about the safety of not speaking. It is a late Edo stage saying, first found as a pun the audience already knew in manuscripts of about 1800, and a younger cousin of a Heian proverb of unspoken love in the Tale of Genji: not saying surpasses saying.

Tsubouchi Shōyō turned it on the art of the novel.

Philology of 言わぬが花

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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Master Calligrapher Eri Takase creates each scroll personally, hand-brushed to order on traditional Japanese paper.

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