Font Design · VD5J
Font Designs are Master Takase's unique designs. Often she will use her own style or a combination of fonts and, without a classification limit, create exactly the look she wants.
精神一到
seishin ittō
A Concentrated Mind Achieves Anything
Concentration of mind on a task. The four characters open a saying: nothing is beyond a mind concentrated on a thing.
Master Takase creates this beautiful scroll when your order is placed. Personally preparing the ink and brushing your art that proudly bears her signature and seal. This is an original work of art.
Description
精神一到 (seishin ittō): concentration of mind on a task.
The four characters open a saying the dictionaries enter whole, 精神一到何事か成らざらん, seishin ittō nanigoto ka narazaran. Meet a thing with your mind concentrated, they say, and nothing, however difficult, is beyond you. In the saying, one dictionary of sayings reads 一到 as going as far as you can and giving your all. Japanese books set the saying beside the English Where there is a will, there is a way. Whether it is for a promotion or for a long course of study is yours.
In 1800 two Edo booksellers printed the line, with its source, in a small book of sayings to carry for calligraphy done before guests. In 1880 a councillor wrote the eight characters on a flag for the head of a road works. The man directed his workmen with the flag in hand until the road was done.
In a novel published in parts in 1885 and 1886, a student's lodging has a half-sheet scroll of the eight characters in its alcove. Its signature gives a name, but the narrator says nobody knows whose hand wrote it.
Chinese: the second half of a saying of Zhu Xi 朱熹 to his students on study, recorded by Yang Xiang 楊驤 (heard 1189 and 1194) in the 朱子語類, chapter 8 (compiled 1270); in Japan from the 1668 Kyoto print and Kaibara Ekiken's 初學知要 (1698), a maxim of the Meiji ethics textbooks, and Hakuhō's word at his promotion to yokozuna (2007).
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 精神一到.
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.
Sending it as a gift? Add your message at checkout and we will include it.
Shipping is calculated at checkout from your address; within the United States it is $13 to $23. We ship worldwide, and any import charges for your country are shown at checkout before you pay.
Every order is covered by our 30-day money-back guarantee. If your scroll arrives damaged, or we made an error, we replace it or refund you in full, including shipping. Refund policy
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 real silk borders and Japanese paper that are layered so the scroll hangs straight and will not warp over time. The scrolls themselves are made by Sankō (株式会社三幸) in Gifu prefecture, which has been making high quality scrolls since 1947, and we have worked with Sankō 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
