Jiun · 自運 · VD3B
Jiun (自運) is the calligrapher's word for writing from one's own invention. As a Shihan, Master Takase has a hand of her own, and these designs are that hand: she draws freely on the classic scripts to create exactly the look she wants.
五輪の書
gorin no sho
Book of Five Rings
The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi's book on the way of the sword.
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
Book of Five Rings in Japanese is 五輪の書 which is read gorin no sho
五輪の書 (gorin no sho): the Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi's book on the way of the sword.
五輪の書 is named for its five scrolls, and the rings are the scrolls. 五輪 is a Buddhist word for the five elements that make up the world. They are the same five that stack up in the five-ringed stone towers of old graveyards. Musashi gave one scroll to each. The dictionaries write the title 五輪書, without the particle. The scroll writes 五輪の書 with it, as the 1915 edition printed it, so both forms are right.
The five scrolls are Miyamoto Musashi's, written from 1643 to 1645 in his last two years, but the book never calls itself 五輪書, only a book in five scrolls, earth, water, fire, wind and void; the title is a later name for it, already in use in a Kumamoto biography finished in 1776 and in print from 1886.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 五輪の書.
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
