松涛館空手道 shōtōkan karatedō Shotokan Karate-Do

松涛館空手道 (shōtōkan karatedō).

松涛 shōtō, pine waves, the sound of wind in the pines, was the pen name of Funakoshi Gichin, who brought karate from Okinawa to Tokyo in 1922. The students who built him a dōjō in 1939 named it the 松涛館, the Shōtō Hall, and his students' karate came to take its name from the hall; he himself professed no school and never called his karate Shōtōkan. 空手道 karatedō, the way of the empty hand, is the mainland spelling his own students adopted in 1929.

The design brushes 涛 in its modern form; 濤 is the older form of the same character, and the two are one word.

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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