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Semi-Cursive or gyōsho (行書) styles are a simplified and softer form of the kaisho styles. Gyōsho styles can be read by most Japanese.
弓道 kyūdō Kyudo
Kyudo, Japanese archery, the martial art of the bow.
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
Kyudo in Japanese is 弓道 which is read kyūdō
弓道 (kyūdō): Japanese archery, the martial art of the bow.
弓道 is Japanese archery as a martial art: shooting arrows with a bow, and the forms of conduct that go with it. The characters say the way of the bow. The word is far older than the art's name. In 1675 it headed a chart of the schools of the bow. The period's texts mostly called the art itself 弓術, kyūjutsu, the technique of the bow. A sword treatise of 1729 gives the archer's practice under this word: draw to the full, loose with no mind, and quietly lower the bow. The modern name came from below: school clubs took it from 1909, the archers' society in 1919, and the newspapers had made the change by 1930.
The Japanese word kyūdō meaning "Kyudo" is composed of the kanji 弓 (read kyū) meaning "bow" (as in "bow and arrow") and 道 (read dō) meaning "the way; teachings".
弓道 is attested in Edo titles from 1675 and in prose from 1712, for a school's or a teacher's way and for the schools together, while the art was called 弓術; school clubs took the name from 1909, the archers' society 大日本弓道會 registered it in June 1919, a motion for it was put to the Dai Nippon Butokukai in July 1919, and the newspapers had settled on it by 1930.
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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
