Eri's Choice · VD6B
Eri's Choice is a design that does not keep strictly to one style; it is Master Takase's own artistic choice.
忠義礼誠名誉仁勇義
chūgi rei makoto meiyo jin yū gi
Seven Virtues of Bushido
The seven virtues of bushidō, nine characters, seven words.
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
忠義礼誠名誉仁勇義 sets seven virtues side by side: loyalty, respect, honesty, honor, benevolence, valor and rectitude. 義, rectitude, is written twice: once on its own, and once inside 忠義, the word for loyalty. In Nitobe's book loyalty comes last of the seven, the keystone of his arch; this order sets it first.
The seven virtues are the chapters of an English book, Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1900) by Nitobe Inazō 新渡戸稲造, which gives them no Japanese form. Their short Japanese names are his translators'; these seven, in the older forms 禮 and 名譽, are the chapter titles of Yanaihara Tadao 矢内原忠雄's translation of 1938, as the National Diet Library catalogues it. This loyalty-first order is first seen on Takase Studios' own pages, in 2011; neither of the National Diet Library's two full-text indexes finds it in a book.
Learn More About These Words
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 忠義礼誠名誉仁勇義.
