Semi-Cursive · gyōsho 行書 · VS5C
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.
家内安全
kanai anzen
Peace and Prosperity in the Household
The household kept safe: a prayer for the family, and the scroll for a new home.
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
家内安全 is the wish that no one in a family meets accident or illness. It is said for the people inside one house, and it is one of the wishes an amulet is issued for, the amulet a family keeps on its house-shelf or in its Buddhist altar. The word says safe.
The English title also says prosperity. In the thousand-visits prayer kept at the Kansai shrines, 家内安全 is paired with 商売繁昌, a thriving trade.
家内安全 is composed of the word 家内 (read kanai) meaning "household; one's family" and 安全 (read anzen) meaning "safety; security".
家内安全 is a prayer for a household's safety, first found, in the National Diet Library's full-text search of classical books, in a Muromachi priest's prayer of about 1400, kept in a later copy, and printed on shrine and temple amulets by the late Edo period.
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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 家内安全.
