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我事に於て後悔せず
ware koto ni oite kōkai sezu
Do not regret what you have done
In what I do, I do not regret: the sixth of the twenty-one first-person articles of Miyamoto Musashi's Dokkōdō, The Way Walked Alone.
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
我事に於て後悔せず (ware koto ni oite kōkai sezu): in what I do, I do not regret.
我事に於て後悔せず is the sixth of twenty-one first-person articles Miyamoto Musashi brushed on one sheet of paper, and all but one turn on what he does not do or does not have. Its readers have called the sheet a vow to himself, a self-admonition, maxims and a confession. A person who hangs it hangs Musashi's own sentence about himself. Whether to read it as his words or to take it as your own is yours.
The English title turns what Musashi says of himself into advice to the reader. The Japanese is his statement about himself: I regret nothing I do.
The English title is from Kenji Tokitsu's Miyamoto Musashi: His Life and Writings of 2004, in Sherab Chödzin Kohn's translation.
Musashi brushed the twenty-one articles on one sheet, dated by its colophon and by the school's chronicles to the twelfth day of the fifth month of 1645, a week before his death; the prefecture that holds the sheet judges that colophon, with its address to his pupil Terao Magonojō, a later hand, while the first scholar on record to study the sheet as a text, in 1967, reads it as Musashi's own, written on another day.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 我事に於て後悔せず.
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 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
