Block · kaisho 楷書 · VB2C
Block or kaisho (楷書) styles are the most common and recognizable styles. Block styles are easily read and are noted for their angular form and their vertical and horizontal lines.
一心同体
isshin dōtai
One in Mind and Body
One heart, one body; two people acting as one.
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
大辞泉, the standard dictionary, gives one sentence for it, husband and wife are one heart and one body, so a couple who choose it choose the word Japanese uses for them; One in Mind and Body says the two halves, and of one flesh is what a Japanese reader hears. The word has only ever meant many acting as one, and the couple is its newest subject, not its only one: two friends, two partners or a team who want the word for acting as one person have it just as exactly. Which two is yours.
一心同体 is composed of the words 一心 (read isshin) meaning "one heart, one mind" and 同体 (read dōtai) meaning "one body".
A Chinese phrase for a minister and his king, a master and his disciples and sworn brothers, it entered Japanese in a Tokyo police regulation of 1874 and was first said of a married couple in 1876, in a translation of an American book on the household.
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