Jiun · 自運 · VD5B
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.
不言実行
fugen jikkō
Action Before Words
To do the thing without announcing it; act first, and let your words follow.
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
Action Before Words in Japanese is 不言実行 which is read fugen jikkō
不言実行 (fugen jikkō): to do the thing without announcing it; act first, and let your words follow.
Do the thing and do not announce it: a word for resolve kept quiet, the virtue of the person who carries out what they have decided and lets the doing speak. From 1912 the Analects' commentators read it through the Master's answer to what makes a gentleman, that he acts before he speaks and afterwards speaks according to his actions, which is what Action Before Words translates; its best gloss is a commentator's one line, 不言実行 prizes not the silence but the doing. It has a pun, 有言実行, say it and do it, for the person who would rather promise out loud, and which of the two you live by is yours.
fugen jikkō translates as "Action Before Words; Actions speak louder than words; No talk, all deeds" and is a combination of the words 不言 (read fugen) meaning "not saying" and 実行 (read jikkō) meaning "Action".
A Japanese-made word, first in print in 1898 for a new cabinet that kept its platform to itself, and declared by the first Katsura cabinet in 1901 as its own watchword; from 1902 its users tied it to the Analects' gentleman, slow in speech and quick in action.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 不言実行.
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
