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Respect the Past, Create the New

温故知新 (onkochishin)

温故知新 (onko chishin): warm the old and know the new. The four characters are Confucius's, from the Analects, chapter 為政: go back over what you once learned until it is alive again, and you will find in it something you did not know; a person who can do that is fit to teach. Readers have argued for two thousand years whether 温 means to seek out or to warm up, and the commentaries answer that the two are one act, learning gone cold heated until it answers. Respect the Past, Create the New is the motto the phrase became on Japanese school and company walls.

Philology of 温故知新

Respect the Past, Create the New (温故知新) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Respect the Past, Create the New 温故知新 onkochishin Block Vertical VB3C
Respect the Past, Create the New (温故知新) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Respect the Past, Create the New 温故知新 onkochishin Cursive Vertical VC3B
Respect the Past, Create the New (温故知新) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Respect the Past, Create the New 温故知新 onkochishin Design Vertical VD3B
Respect the Past, Create the New (温故知新) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Respect the Past, Create the New 温故知新 onkochishin Design Vertical VD4B
Respect the Past, Create the New (温故知新) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Respect the Past, Create the New 温故知新 onkochishin Design Vertical VD4C
Respect the Past, Create the New (温故知新) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Respect the Past, Create the New 温故知新 onkochishin Semi-Cursive Vertical VS3C
Respect the Past, Create the New (温故知新) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Respect the Past, Create the New 温故知新 onkochishin Semi-Cursive Vertical VS4C
Respect the Past, Create the New (温故知新) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Respect the Past, Create the New 温故知新 onkochishin Block Horizontal HB3A
Respect the Past, Create the New (温故知新) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Respect the Past, Create the New 温故知新 onkochishin Cursive Horizontal HC2A
Respect the Past, Create the New (温故知新) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Respect the Past, Create the New 温故知新 onkochishin Design Horizontal HD3A
Respect the Past, Create the New (温故知新) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Respect the Past, Create the New 温故知新 onkochishin Design Horizontal HD3B
Respect the Past, Create the New (温故知新) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Respect the Past, Create the New 温故知新 onkochishin Semi-Cursive Horizontal HS3A
Respect the Past, Create the New (温故知新) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Respect the Past, Create the New 温故知新 onkochishin Semi-Cursive Horizontal HS5A

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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Your PDF is available for download the moment your order completes, and a copy is attached to your emailed receipt.

Also available as a hand-brushed Japanese scroll

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

$220

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