Eri's Choice · VD6B
Eri's Choice is a design that does not keep strictly to one style; it is Master Takase's own artistic choice.
我事に於て後悔せず
ware koto ni oite kōkaisezu
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.
by Master Eri Takase
Born and raised in Osaka, Japan, Eri Takase received the rank of Shihan, master, from two calligraphy societies, the Bokuteki-kai and Bunka-shodō, and won best-of-category awards in all-Japan national competitions. She has created calligraphy for people around the world for more than thirty years, and with your order she will be creating calligraphy for you.
In a ritual as old as calligraphy itself, Master Takase prepares the ink, meditatively rubbing the ink stick against the stone until it reaches the perfect consistency for the paper. Then, properly loading the brush with ink, she brushes your scroll. And only when the scroll is just right and meets her approval, she signs it and affixes her seal, completing your original scroll.
12 1/4" × 43" (31 × 109 cm) Japanese Scrolls
The scrolls have woven damask borders and special layered Japanese paper (washi), designed to last generations by a scroll maker in Gifu, Japan, with whom we have worked for over two decades.
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Explanation
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. We read it as the school's chronicle names the sheet, a vow Musashi makes to himself.
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 chronicle to the twelfth day of the fifth month of 1645, a week before his death; the prefecture that designated the sheet in 2003 holds it more natural to take that colophon, with its address to his pupil Terao Magonojō, as a later insertion, while the earliest study of the sheet as a text among the sources read here, Shitō Seiya's of 1967, reads it as Musashi's own, written on another day.
Learn More About These Words
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.
