Semi-Cursive · gyōsho 行書 · VS3C
Semi-Cursive or gyōsho (行書) styles are a simplified and softer form of the kaisho styles. Gyōsho styles can be read by most Japanese.
子供の為に
kodomo no tame ni
For the Sake of the Children
For the sake of the children.
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.
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Explanation
子供の為に is a purpose with the verb left off, as in the English. 子供 kodomo is now mostly used of one child, though it still means children too. の為に no tame ni is for the sake of, with the older sense of benefit behind it. What one does for them is left to the reader. Japanese drops the possessor, so the line holds my children and our children at once.
The phrase has no author; in the medieval war tales it is a mother's reason with her sons' lives at stake or just lost, said by the Soga brothers' mother in the Soga monogatari (in print by 1627) and given to her again by Chikamatsu in 1718, and in English it is the title of Dennis Ogawa's 1978 history of the Japanese in Hawaii.
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