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To Thine Own Self Be True

己に忠実なれ (onore ni chūjitsu nare)

己に忠実なれ (onore ni chūjitsu nare): be faithful to yourself. 忠実 is faithful, loyal, which is what Polonius meant by true when he gave his son this precept in Hamlet. The five characters are Kume Masao's, from his 1922 translation of the play, and his readers knew them already: since 1908 the writers of Japanese naturalism had made 自己に忠実なれ a watchword of the self against rules and models. Kume gave Polonius a Japanese maxim, which is why a line of Shakespeare reads here like a proverb.

Philology of 己に忠実なれ

To Thine Own Self Be True (己に忠実なれ) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
To Thine Own Self Be True 己に忠実なれ onore ni chūjitsu nare Block Vertical VB5C
To Thine Own Self Be True (己に忠実なれ) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
To Thine Own Self Be True 己に忠実なれ onore ni chūjitsu nare Cursive Vertical VC5B
To Thine Own Self Be True (己に忠実なれ) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
To Thine Own Self Be True 己に忠実なれ onore ni chūjitsu nare Semi-Cursive Vertical VS4C
To Thine Own Self Be True (己に忠実なれ) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
To Thine Own Self Be True 己に忠実なれ onore ni chūjitsu nare Semi-Cursive Vertical VS5C
To Thine Own Self Be True (己に忠実なれ) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
To Thine Own Self Be True 己に忠実なれ onore ni chūjitsu nare Block Horizontal HB5A
To Thine Own Self Be True (己に忠実なれ) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
To Thine Own Self Be True 己に忠実なれ onore ni chūjitsu nare Cursive Horizontal HC5A
To Thine Own Self Be True (己に忠実なれ) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
To Thine Own Self Be True 己に忠実なれ onore ni chūjitsu nare Semi-Cursive Horizontal HS5A

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