Eri's Choice · VD7B
Eri's Choice is a design that does not keep strictly to one style; it is Master Takase's own artistic choice.
神を信ぜよ
kami o shinzeyo
Trust in God
Trust in God: Jesus's words at Mark 11:22, as the Meiji New Testament gives them.
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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Explanation
神を信ぜよ (kami o shinzeyo): trust in God, believe in God.
Trust in God: at Mark 11:22 these are Jesus's own words to his disciples, the whole of the sentence he says before he goes on to the promise for whoever does not doubt, and that promise is the reader's to know. The Japanese is the sentence of the Meiji New Testament, to the character, and its verb is the older command form, 信ぜよ, of a verb whose everyday form today is 信じる. The English Bible's own words at the verse are have faith in God; trust in God and believe in God both say what the Japanese says, and the command is to the one who reads it.
The Japanese phrase "kami o shinzeyo" meaning "Trust in God, Believe in God" is composed of the words 神 (read kami) meaning "God" and 信ぜよ (read "shinzeyo"), the command form of 信ず, the older form of the verb 信じる (read shinjiru) meaning "trust in, believe in".
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We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 神を信ぜよ.
