Jiun · 自運 · VD4B
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.
千秋万歳
senshūbanzai
A Thousand Years of Long Life
A thousand autumns and ten thousand years: an old wish for long life, two spans of time set side by side with no verb.
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
千秋万歳 (senshūbanzai): a thousand autumns and ten thousand years, a wish for long life.
A thousand autumns and ten thousand years: two spans of time set side by side with no verb, and the reader supplies the wish, may you live a thousand years. It is an old Chinese wish for long life, and two of the Han roof-tile inscriptions a Qing scholar listed carry it. In Japan the chronicle the dictionaries call the first official history has it in a minister's congratulation to the sovereign, and the next official chronicle grants a family name with it, that the name should pass on without end. The same four characters, read senzumanzai, also name a New Year trade: performers who stood at the gates of houses, chanted words praising the household's fortune and long life, and were paid for it. The Nihon Kokugo Daijiten says the trade seems to have been named from the words. The performers came to be called manzai, and the dictionaries trace the comic double act, also manzai, to them. For the wish, the Japanese dictionaries give the four characters as forever, and as a word that wishes someone long life. Whose thousand autumns you wish is yours.
千秋万歳 is composed of the words 千秋 (read senshū) meaning "thousand years, a thousand autumns" and 万歳 (read banzai) meaning "long life and prosperity".
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 千秋万歳.
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
