Eri's Choice · VD6B
Eri's Choice is a design that does not keep strictly to one style; it is Master Takase's own artistic choice.
始めに神は天と地を創造された
hajime ni kami wa ten to chi o sōzō sareta
In the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth: the Bible's first verse, whole, in the words of the Japan Bible Society's colloquial Bible.
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.
Gift-Ready
Your scroll arrives boxed, with a printed insert describing the words in detail.
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Ships in 1-3 days from Washington State
Your scroll is brushed when you order it and completed within 1 to 3 business days.
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Explanation
始めに神は天と地を創造された (hajime ni kami wa ten to chi o sōzō sareta): in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth: the Bible's first verse, whole, and a person who chooses them takes the opening of everything. The words are the Japan Bible Society's colloquial Bible's, with one word, 始めに, written in kanji where that Bible prints kana and one particle let go, so a reader who owns that Bible will find the same sentence there; された is the honorific passive by which that Bible says what God does. The older classical Bible opened with another sentence entirely, so this verse in the voice a Japanese Christian's grandparents heard is a different sentence. The English title is the New International Version's phrase for the verse. Whose beginning it marks is yours.
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 始めに神は天と地を創造された.
