Jiun · 自運 · VD6B
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.
剛柔流空手道
gōjūryū karatedō
Goju-ryu Karate-do
Goju-ryu karate-do, the hard and soft school: the karate of Miyagi Chōjun's line.
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
剛柔流空手道 (gōjūryū karatedō).
Gōjū-ryū is a style of karate, the Naha line of Miyagi Chōjun, senior pupil of Higaonna Kanryō, and a Japanese encyclopedia names Miyagi its founder. 剛 (read gō) is hard and unyielding, 柔 (read jū) soft and yielding, and 流 (read ryū) is a school or lineage of an art. A story is told of the name: a senior pupil of Miyagi's was asked at a demonstration what his school was called and, as the Japanese Wikipedia tells it, could not answer, and Miyagi then took the name from a line of the Bubishi, the boxing manual Okinawan karate hands down: the method is hard and soft, swallowing and spitting. The tellings date that day anywhere from 1929 to 1937. The Japanese Wikipedia dates the first paper to carry the name to 1931; other sources, and its own list of his papers, give 1932; and the name is in print by 1934.
An Okinawan history of 1941 names Miyagi of the Gōjū-ryū as the authority in the prefecture. 空手道 karatedō is the way of the empty hand.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 剛柔流空手道.
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
