Eri's Choice · VD5J
Eri's Choice is a design that does not keep strictly to one style; it is Master Takase's own artistic choice.
因果応報
inga ōhō
Karma
Good and bad deeds bring their due; today the phrase is mostly said of bad deeds bearing bad fruit.
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
因果応報 (inga ōhō): good and bad deeds bring their due, good fortune from good and ill from bad. Today it is mostly said of bad deeds bearing bad fruit.
In the デジタル大辞泉, good or bad deeds in a former life or in the past are the cause. Their recompense is a good or bad result now. 因果 is cause and fruit, and 応報 is recompense. Whether you take it as a law with two halves or as a deterrent is yours.
In 1884 a manual for primary-school teachers said to avoid teaching 因果応報, except for such things as diligence. A child taught that the good are rewarded and the wicked punished would do good for praise, it said, and shun evil from fear.
A Shingon primer for lay believers, catalogued in 1881, asks who made the law of cause and recompense. No creator or lord makes it, the primer answers. It is what beings bring about by the power of their deeds.
A Buddhist phrase from China, where it is written 因果報應, as in 道宣's 廣弘明集 (664) and the life of 玄奘; the order 因果應報 stands in the Chinese canon once, in 義淨's translation (700). In Japan it is first found in a book of tales of 1696, the 玉箒子, and by the 1880s it is the common order.
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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 因果応報.
