Jiun · 自運 · VD5B
Jiun (自運) is the calligrapher's word for writing from one's own invention. As a Shihan, Master Takase has a hand of her own, and these designs are that hand: she draws freely on the classic scripts to create exactly the look she wants.
正射正中
seisha seichū
Correct Shooting, Correct Hit
Correct shooting, correct hit.
Master Takase creates this beautiful scroll when your order is placed, personally preparing the ink and brushing your art, which proudly bears her signature and seal. This is an original work of art.
Description
Correct Shooting, Correct Hit in Japanese is 正射正中 which is read seisha seichū
正射正中 (seisha seichū): correct shooting, correct hit.
正射正中 is the maxim of Japanese archery: shoot correctly, and the hit follows. It tells the archer to attend to the form, not the target. The idea is far older than the four characters, and Japanese archery books quote it from the Confucian classics. This form says correct twice. The kyūdō federation writes 正射必中, seisha hitchū, correct shooting, certain hit, the common form, and the two mean nearly the same.
A kyūdō maxim of the 1930s, in print from 1936, when the archery teacher 桑村常之助 set the four characters as a page head in his handbook; the idea it compresses, that correct shooting brings the hit, is the Record of Rites' and Mencius's, and the archery federation writes the maxim 正射必中.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 正射正中.
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.
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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 woven damask borders and layered Japanese paper, designed to last generations. The scrolls themselves are made by a scroll maker in Gifu, Japan, and we have worked with them 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
