Font Design · VD4A
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.
aratana hajimari
A new beginning.
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.
A New Beginning in Japanese is 新たな始まり which is read aratana hajimari
新たな始まり (aratana hajimari): a new beginning.
新た arata, new, is in the Man'yōshū; な makes it an attribute; 始まり hajimari is the noun of to begin. A noun phrase, so it reads as a title, and the library holds it on one page before its corpus ends, a philosopher's Feuerbach of 1948, where logic is a new beginning. It is the house's plain Japanese for the English, made for a card, a wedding or a new year, and it says exactly what the English says.
This beautiful art of "A New Beginning" in Japanese is a perfect wedding gift or a thoughtful gift to wish someone well in a new phase of their life.
The scroll is completed within 1–3 business days and is shipped from Master Takase's studio in Washington State by USPS Priority Mail. It arrives ready to display.
The scroll is packed in its own box inside the shipping box. A printed page travels with it showing the art with its English, romaji and Japanese. Sending it as a gift? Ask us when you order and we will include your message.
The scroll is $220. Shipping is USPS Priority Mail, calculated at checkout from your address: within the United States it is roughly $13 to $22; to Canada about $47; to Europe, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Korea and Brazil about $69 to $86. Outside the United States, import tax and customs charges are collected by your customs authority at delivery and are not part of what you pay us. Germany is the one exception: we collect them at checkout so nothing is owed at the door.
Every order is covered by our 100% money-back guarantee for 30 days. Contact us first and we will confirm the return details. If your item arrives damaged, or we made an error, we replace it or refund you in full, including shipping. Refund policy
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
Master Takase personally brushes your Japanese scroll when you order. Each scroll proudly bears her red seal, 英利, and her signature.
The scrolls are 12 1/4" W × 43" H (31 × 109 cm) with real silk borders and Japanese paper that are layered so the scroll hangs straight and will not warp over time. The scrolls themselves are made by Sankō (株式会社三幸) in Gifu prefecture, which has been making high quality scrolls since 1947, and we have worked with Sankō for over two decades.