自他共栄 jita kyōei Mutual Benefit

Mutual Benefit in Japanese is 自他共栄 which is read jita kyōei

自他共栄 (jita kyōei): self and others prospering together.

自他共栄 is the good that you and everyone around you share when each of you uses your strength well. The word is together, never for others. Help one another and yield to one another, and both sides do well. The words reach past the dojo, to groups and to whole countries living side by side. Whether you hang it for your training partners or for the wider world is yours.

The phrase is composed of the words 自他 (read jita) meaning "oneself and others" and 共栄 (read kyōei) meaning "mutual prosperity".

Kanō Jigorō made 自他共栄 the second principle of judo in 1922, with the Kodokan Cultural Society he founded that year, as his short form of 相助相譲・自他共栄, and the society's statement of purpose printed it in 1925 as the natural result of the best use of energy, 精力善用; the four characters themselves are in print from 1906, before judo took them up.

We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 自他共栄.

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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 real silk borders and Japanese paper that are layered so the scroll hangs straight and will not warp over time. The scrolls themselves are made by Sankō (株式会社三幸) in Gifu prefecture, which has been making high quality scrolls since 1947, and we have worked with Sankō 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