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.
温故知新
onkochishin
Respect the Past, Create the New
Warm the old and know the new: a saying of Confucius on who is fit to teach.
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
Respect the Past, Create the New in Japanese is 温故知新 which is read onkochishin
温故知新 (onko chishin): warm the old and know the new.
温故知新 is Confucius's description of a teacher: someone who goes back over what they have learned and finds something new in it. Commentators gave the first character two pictures, seek out and reheat, and Japanese readers still read it either way. Japanese dictionaries now read the phrase as study of the past. Whether you hang it for study, teaching or work is yours.
On the design VD4C, Master Takase writes: "Look closely at the first character. Where one stroke of 日 belongs, I brushed a red dot. In traditional calligraphy this is not done, and that is the idea, the new inside the old. It is also an homage to Japanese roots. Japan is written 日本, and the red dot is the sun as on the Japanese flag. So both a respect for the traditional, and a touch of the new with color inside the traditional calligraphy."
The line is a saying of Confucius as the Analects records it, chapter 為政, saying eleven, about who is fit to teach; the four characters without the connective 而 already stand as a phrase in a Chinese edict of 23 BC, and a Japanese edict of 703 is the earliest Japanese use the 日本国語大辞典 records.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 温故知新.
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
