Jiun · 自運 · VD3B
Jiun (自運) is the calligrapher's word for writing from one's own invention. As a Shihan, Master Takase has a hand of her own, and these designs are that hand: she draws freely on the classic scripts to create exactly the look she wants.
日々是好日
nichinichi kore kōjitsu
Every day is a good day
Day after day, a good day.
Master Takase creates this beautiful scroll when your order is placed, personally preparing the ink and brushing your art, which proudly bears her signature and seal. This is an original work of art.
Description
Every day is a good day in Japanese is 日々是好日 which is read nichinichi kore kōjitsu
日々是好日 (nichinichi kore kōjitsu): day after day, a good day.
日々是好日 is a household phrase in Japan for a good and peaceful life. It also carries a quiet resolve: to live each day with care. In Zen it is sharper. It is an answer about the days still to come, and the commentators say it gathers in all of past and future at once. Both senses are real, and which one you hang it for is yours. Each half has two readings, nichinichi or hibi, and kōjitsu or kōnichi, and Zen books of the last century mark 好日 both ways.
The answer the Chinese Chan master Yunmen 雲門文偃 (died 949) gave in his monks' place, when he asked them for one phrase about the days after the fifteenth and none of them spoke; it is in his own record, and it became the sixth case of the 碧巌録 of 1125, the book the Japanese dictionaries cite for it.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 日々是好日.
Delivery
Your scroll is brushed when you order it and completed within 1 to 3 business days. It ships by USPS Priority Mail from Master Takase's studio in Washington State, boxed and ready to hang, with a printed page giving the art's English, romaji and Japanese.
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About Our Scrolls
Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase brushes your scroll by hand when you order it. Each scroll bears her red seal, 英利, and her signature.
The scrolls are 12 1/4" W × 43" H (31 × 109 cm), with woven damask borders and layered Japanese paper, designed to last generations. The scrolls themselves are made by a scroll maker in Gifu, Japan, and we have worked with them for over two decades.
Eri Takase was born and raised in Osaka, Japan, and holds the rank of Shihan, the highest rank in Japanese calligraphy, from the Bokuteki-kai and the Bunka-shodo. About Master Takase
