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王女戦士
ōjo senshi
Warrior Princess
A warrior who is a princess.
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
王女戦士 is read the way 企業戦士, the corporate warrior, is read: the second word is the head. 戦士 is a soldier on the field and, today, anyone who fights on the front line for a cause. A Japanese reader takes it that way on sight.
王女戦士 is a combination of the words 王女 ōjo and 戦士 senshi.
The compound renders the English warrior princess, the name given a princess in M. G. Lewis's melodrama Timour the Tartar (first staged in London in 1811; the name in print by 1823), a dime-novel title in 1873 and the subtitle of a 1995 television series: two old Japanese words, 王女, a king's daughter, and 戦士, one who fights, set the other way round from the English, so that 戦士 is the head and she is a warrior who is a princess; its earliest known Japanese print is of 1988, in a translated American novel, and it remains rare, in no dictionary consulted.
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