Cursive · sōsho 草書 · VC6B
Cursive or sōsho (草書) styles are the most simplified styles and Master Takase's favorite. While very beautiful, these styles are often difficult to read even by specialists.
雨降って地固まる
ame futte ji katamaru
The Ground Becomes Firm After Rain
After rain, the ground sets firm.
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
Something goes wrong between people or in a realm. Afterward the ground is firmer than before. The witnesses differ in the size of the disturbance. For one it is a reconciliation party of the 1620s, where Teitoku made a verse of it. In the telling of Ieyasu after Sekigahara, it is a war. In the dictionaries it is a disturbance of any size, with the quarrel kept at the center. Saikaku turns it to irony: in his story a bankrupt arranges to come out richer, and the proverb is his. After a storm comes a calm and an argument clears the air are its two English lives.
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