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明日は明日の風が吹く
ashita wa ashita no kaze ga fuku
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Tomorrow, tomorrow's wind will blow.
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.
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Explanation
明日は明日の風が吹く tells you not to borrow tomorrow's trouble. The wind is fortune, the way things blow. The proverb has two faces: a shrug, let it blow, and a hope that a better wind may come. The doubled 明日 is its shape, as for tomorrow, then tomorrow's. It is also read asu wa asu no kaze ga fuku.
The proverb is in Tsukitei Kashō 月亭可笑's 角鶏卵, a novel of the Naitō Shinjuku pleasure quarter with a preface dated 1784, where a young man uses it unexplained, as if it were already a saying. That is more than a century and a half before Gone with the Wind reached Japan as a film in 1952, the year the film press printed Scarlett's line at Tara in the proverb's words, with a また.
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