Semi-Cursive · gyōsho 行書 · VS5J
Semi-Cursive or gyōsho (行書) styles are a simplified and softer form of the kaisho styles. Gyōsho styles can be read by most Japanese.
一意専心
ichii senshin
Wholehearted Devotion
Wholehearted devotion: the whole mind poured into one thing, without a glance to the side, in a phrase that goes back to the Chinese Guanzi.
Master Takase creates this beautiful scroll when your order is placed, personally preparing the ink and brushing your art, which proudly bears her signature and seal. This is an original work of art.
Description
一意専心 (ichii senshin) is word for word one intent, the mind solely on it. 一意 and 専心 are two near-synonyms set side by side.
The phrase is current Japanese, often used of aiming at a goal in work or study. A sumo wrestler used it at his promotion ceremony in 1993, and a prime minister in a state-funeral eulogy.
On the Song print's page, the commentary printed with the text glosses 搏, the third character of the Guanzi's line, as to gather and knot together. W. Allyn Rickett's English of 1998 reads that character as 專, the older form of 専, and renders the line You will focus your power of awareness and concentrate your mind.
Rickett's note names Yasui among the scholars behind his reading of the character as 專. His volume one gives the name as Yasui Kō, whose Japanese commentary on the Guanzi is of 1864.
The phrase goes back to a line of the Chinese Guanzi, a book compiled, by the account of Japan's largest historical dictionary, between the end of the Warring States and the Han, whose Song-dynasty print writes it 一意搏心; the Japanese form writes the third character 専, and the dictionaries' instances of it run from 1922.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 一意専心.
Delivery
Your scroll is brushed when you order it and completed within 1 to 3 business days. It ships by USPS Priority Mail from Master Takase's studio in Washington State, boxed and ready to hang, with a printed page giving the art's English, romaji and Japanese.
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About Our Scrolls
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 woven damask borders and layered Japanese paper, designed to last generations. The scrolls themselves are made by a scroll maker in Gifu, Japan, and we have worked with them 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
