Eri's Choice · VD4B
Eri's Choice is a design that does not keep strictly to one style; it is Master Takase's own artistic choice.
神の加護
kami no kago
God Bless You
God bless you: the wish a Japanese speaker sends someone off with, and the words themselves say God's protection.
by Master Eri Takase
Born and raised in Osaka, Japan, Eri Takase received the rank of Shihan, master, from two calligraphy societies, the Bokuteki-kai and Bunka-shodō, and won best-of-category awards in all-Japan national competitions. She has created calligraphy for people around the world for more than thirty years, and with your order she will be creating calligraphy for you.
In a ritual as old as calligraphy itself, Master Takase prepares the ink, meditatively rubbing the ink stick against the stone until it reaches the perfect consistency for the paper. Then, properly loading the brush with ink, she brushes your scroll. And only when the scroll is just right and meets her approval, she signs it and affixes her seal, completing your original scroll.
12 1/4" × 43" (31 × 109 cm) Japanese Scrolls
The scrolls have woven damask borders and special layered Japanese paper (washi), designed to last generations by a scroll maker in Gifu, Japan, with whom we have worked for over two decades.
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Your scroll arrives boxed, with a printed insert describing the words in detail.
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Explanation
神の加護 (kami no kago): God bless you, God's protection.
God bless you: the wish a Japanese speaker sends someone off with, and the four characters say a little more than the English does, God's protection, the keeping that carries a person through. Which God the characters do not say, so the same four serve a church, a temple and a shrine, and the reader brings their own.
The Japanese phrase "kami no kago" meaning "God Bless You" is composed of the words 神 (read kami) meaning "God; god" and 加護 (read kago) meaning "divine protection". Literally it is "God's protection". It is a noun, so the same four characters serve "God bless you" and "God's protection" alike; the wish built on it, 神の御加護がありますように, means "may God's protection be upon you."
A Buddhist word for the protection a buddha or a god adds to a person, in Japanese by 999; the medieval war tales say a man is a man by the 加護 of the gods, Japanese print gave it to the Christian God by 1880, and from the 1920s translators made 神の御加護がありますように the Japanese for God bless you.
Learn More About These Words
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 神の加護.
