Eri's Choice · VD2B
Eri's Choice is a design that does not keep strictly to one style; it is Master Takase's own artistic choice.
武士道 bushidō Way of the Warrior
The moral code of the samurai, the sense the word took in Meiji; before that, the conduct proper to a samurai, and his honor.
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
武士道 has had two lives, and both are on the word. In the older it names the conduct proper to a samurai, and in Edo fiction and on the stage his honor, which stands or falls. In the later it is the name of a national ethic, which Nitobe Inazō, writing in English in 1900, roughly rendered as chivalry. 道 is a way in the sense of 茶道 and 書道: the practice and conduct that belong to a calling. Neither is false, and we read it the older way, the way a warrior must keep, or his honor that must not fall, because that is what the word meant for the longer part of its history.
武士道 is composed of the kanji 武 (read bu) meaning "martial, military, warrior, arms", 士 (read shi) meaning "samurai; gentleman" and 道 (read dō) meaning "the way; teachings".
The dictionaries' earliest example is in the 甲陽軍鑑, the military chronicle of the Takeda house, dated to the early seventeenth century and first printed in 1656, and a Satsuma rule-book dated 1596 is reported to carry the word; the sense of a national code of ethics, which English renders as chivalry, was given to it in Meiji, between the late 1870s and 1900.
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We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 武士道.
