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.
戦氣
senki
Spirit of Battle
The spirit of battle, which Miyamoto Musashi made famous in a scroll he brushed.
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
Spirit of Battle in Japanese is 戦氣 which is read senki
戦氣 (senki): the spirit of battle, which Miyamoto Musashi made famous in a scroll he brushed.
The will and momentum of battle, and something older: the air over a fight as a thing seen. A trained eye once read it for what it foretold. English hears Spirit of Battle as ardor, and the word reaches that, a fighter's will and an army's morale. The scroll it comes from shows the opposite: stillness that reflects, a cold stream carrying the moon. A person who hangs these two characters should know both halves: what the word says, and what Musashi wrote beneath it. Which they hang it for is theirs.
Master Takase writes 氣 in its traditional form, as Musashi did. She offers the word in block, semi-cursive and cursive script and in her own font designs.
戦氣 is a literary word, and in Japan it is known from the hanging scroll Miyamoto Musashi brushed. The two characters stand large at its head. Beneath them is a line of verse about a cold river carrying the moon, clear as a mirror. The verse is taken to express the state he reached with the sword. The scroll is kept in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, and is a cultural property of the city.
戦氣 is composed of the kanji 戦 (read sen) meaning "war, battle" and 氣 (read ki) meaning "air, breath, spirit".
Miyamoto Musashi brushed the word in the early Edo period, the seventeenth century, at the head of a hanging scroll, above a line by the Chinese poet Bai Juyi that Japan knew from the Wakan rōeishū.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 戦氣.
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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Every order is covered by our 30-day money-back guarantee. If your scroll arrives damaged, or we made an error, we replace it or refund you in full, including shipping. Refund policy
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
