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.
二天一流 niten ichiryū Two Heavens One Style
The Niten school, the two-sword school of Miyamoto Musashi, which the Book of Five Rings teaches.
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
Two Heavens One Style[1] in Japanese is 二天一流 which is read niten ichiryū
二天一流 (niten ichiryū): the Niten school, the two-sword school of Miyamoto Musashi, which the Book of Five Rings teaches.
二天一流 is the name of Miyamoto Musashi's school. 二天, two heavens, is Musashi's own Buddhist sobriquet, so in Japanese it is the Niten school, as one says the Yagyū school. 一流 is one word, a school.
The English title reads the four characters one at a time.
niten ichiryū literally means "Two Heavens One Style" and is composed of the kanji 二 (read ni) meaning "two", 天 (read ten) meaning "heaven, sky", 一 (read ichi) meaning "one", and 流 (read ryū) meaning "style".
References:
[1] Translation by David K. Groff, The Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi's Art of Strategy (Chartwell Books, 2016; first published by Watkins, 2012), p. 44.
The licences under Musashi's name call his school 円明流, Enmei, and his memorandum of 1641 calls it 二刀, two swords; 二天, two heavens, was his own Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku. His five scrolls of 1643–45 use both 二天一流 and 二刀一流 and survive only in copies made after his death; an epitaph of 1721 names the school 二天一流, and who first gave it that name is disputed.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 二天一流.
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
