Font Design · VD5J
Font Designs are Master Takase's unique designs. Often she will use her own style or a combination of fonts and, without a classification limit, create exactly the look she wants.
大願成就
taigan jōju
A Great Wish Fulfilled
A great wish has come true.
Master Takase creates this beautiful scroll when your order is placed. Personally preparing the ink and brushing your art that proudly bears her signature and seal. This is an original work of art.
Description
大願成就 (taigan jōju): a great wish coming true.
The 日本国語大辞典 adds that the wish comes true through the protection of the gods and Buddhas. The four characters are also read daigan jōju. Whether it is for an exam passed or for a great wish fulfilled is yours.
The 世界大百科事典 tells that in the late Edo period, when smallpox spread, the daruma doll became a charm against it and was sold without eyes. Painting in its eyes when a great wish is fulfilled is a custom that has come down to today. Another encyclopedia says it is still done for an exam passed or an election won.
In a book of stories by Saikaku printed in 1687, a priest purifying a shrine's inner sanctuary finds a petition sealed there. A young actor has written in it that he has kept his body strictly pure for five years, until his great wish is fulfilled. A book of seasonal words, in its print of 1885, says pilgrims with a wish carried large wooden swords up 大山 in Sagami. On the swords, it says, they wrote the four characters 大願成就.
Buddhist, from the Chinese canon: the four characters stand among the virtues of the householder Vimalakīrti in Kumārajīva's translation of the Vimalakīrti Sūtra (406), and in the esoteric manuals of the early eighth century they are the benefit a rite delivers; in Japan they became the words of a prayer answered, written on votive objects and spoken on the Edo stage.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 大願成就.
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.
Sending it as a gift? Add your message at checkout and we will include it.
Shipping is calculated at checkout from your address; within the United States it is $13 to $23. We ship worldwide, and any import charges for your country are shown at checkout before you pay.
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 Japanese paper that are layered so the scroll hangs straight and will not warp over time. 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
