Eri's Choice · VD3B
Eri's Choice is a design that does not keep strictly to one style; it is Master Takase's own artistic choice.
宮本武蔵
miyamoto musashi
Miyamoto Musashi
Miyamoto Musashi, the swordsman and painter who wrote the Book of Five Rings.
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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Your scroll arrives boxed, with a printed insert describing the words in detail.
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Your scroll is brushed when you order it and completed within 1 to 3 business days.
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Explanation
宮本武蔵 is a name each reader meets through a different door. Some know the swordsman of the duels, or the inventor of a two-sword style. Some know the strategist, or the young hero of Yoshikawa Eiji's novel. Others know the painter in ink. The earliest printed book known to name him already knew him as both the swordsman and the painter. We take that pairing as the truest thing the early record says of him.
The name joins 宮本, which the biography of 1909 takes from the village his family lived in, and which another account has him take on succeeding to his mother's house, to 武蔵, the name of a province used as his common name without the governorship it would imply; it is the name in the two letters in his own hand, the name the Hosokawa house of Kumamoto wrote for him in the 1640s and the surname his adopted son bore, while the book he wrote on strategy is signed with another surname, Shinmen.
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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 宮本武蔵.
