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Jiun · 自運 · VD3B
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.
空手 karate Karate [Empty Hand]
Empty hand: the name of the martial art, in the spelling used today.
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
Karate - Empty Hand in Japanese is 空手 which is read karate
空手 (karate): empty hand.
空手 names the art of fighting with bare hands and empty fists, and it is also plain Japanese for empty-handed. 空 is empty, and in Buddhist use the emptiness of all things, and 手 is the hand. A reader of Japanese sees both lives in the two characters: the art, and a person holding nothing. Whether you hang it in a dojo or at home is yours.
The two characters were an ordinary word for empty-handed for more than a thousand years before they named an art; the Okinawan fighting art, written 唐手 and already read karate, took this spelling in Tokyo from about 1929 among Funakoshi Gichin's students at Keiō, and his book of 1935 explained the change as a break from the impression that the art was Chinese boxing and as a choice of the Buddhist sense of 空.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 空手.
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 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
