Eri's Choice · VD3B
Eri's Choice is a design that does not keep strictly to one style; it is Master Takase's own artistic choice.
順道制勝
jundō seishō
Jundo Seisho
Follow the Way, and command victory.
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
順道制勝 says that the win worth having is the one reached by the right way. Follow the Way, and victory comes of it. Kanō Jigorō made it judo's own: there the win is over oneself and over difficulty before it is over an opponent. Outside the dōjō it says the same of any contest.
Kanō's own gloss is the sentence to read: if you win, win by following the Way; if you lose, lose by following the Way; a loss in accordance with the Way is worth more than a win against it. On some of his calligraphy he added four characters, 行不害人, in acting, harm no one. The Kōdōkan renders the phrase Accordance with the Way Overcomes Winning; John Stevens, in The Way of Judo, Following the Way Produces Victory.
In Japanese order it reads 道に順って勝を制す. The Japanese phrase 順道制勝 (commonly written in English as "Jundo Seisho") is a Judo term composed of the kanji 順 (read jun) meaning "right, order", 道 (read dō) meaning "path, teaching, way" and the word 制勝 (read seishō) meaning "victory".
Kanō Jigorō's own phrase, the founding teaching of Kōdōkan judo, in print under his name from 1913, put in his own words under his name from 1917 and glossed by him in 1922; its two halves are classical, 順道 from the Book of Han and 制勝 from Sunzi, and the four together are his.
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