Eri's Choice · VD4B
Eri's Choice is a design that does not keep strictly to one style; it is Master Takase's own artistic choice.
有段者 yūdansha Black Belt
One who holds a dan rank: in the martial arts, a black belt.
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
有段者 is the word for a person who holds a dan. On the mat the belt is the sign, and the word names the rank itself. A go or shōgi player with a dan has as much right to the word as anyone on the mat.
有段者 is composed of the kanji 有 (read yū) meaning "have; possess", 段 (read dan) meaning "dan, a grade of skill", and 者 (read sha) meaning "person".
有段者 is the word for one who holds a dan, a grade the go houses set in the late seventeenth century; it is in print by 1888 of a jūjutsu school's pupils and by 1894 of the Kōdōkan's members, and in English by 1913, in the account by E. J. Harrison, a journalist living in Tokyo, of a Kōdōkan teacher telling him that the yūdansha are the ones allowed to wear the black belt.
Learn More About These Words
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 有段者.
