Jiun · 自運 · VD4B
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.
水に流す
mizu ni nagasu
Forgive and Forget
Forgive and forget: set the grudge adrift and let the river take it.
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
Forgive and Forget in Japanese is 水に流す which is read mizu ni nagasu
水に流す (mizu ni nagasu): forgive and forget; literally, set it adrift on the water.
What is set adrift is a grudge, a quarrel, the knot an old wrong leaves in the heart. To set it adrift is to make what happened as if it had not, and to hold nothing against what is past. It is an act done to the grudge, not a lapse of memory. So forgive comes before forget, and it is said at the moment two parties make up. The water is a rite's water. At the purification, a paper figure that has taken the year's defilements is set adrift on a stream. The idiom sends the grudge down the same river. A person who hangs it for a quarrel settled, or for the one they mean to settle, has the phrase exactly.
It is the scroll for a quarrel settled.
The idiom is Edo stage speech, first known in a play of 1825 by Tsuruya Nanboku, where a geisha accepts the forgiveness of the samurai she has swindled, and it grew from an older phrase, "make water of it," which meant to forgive by 1806; the earliest known English equation, "to forget and forgive," is a phrase dictionary's of 1909.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 水に流す.
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
