Cursive · sōsho 草書 · VC3B
Cursive or sōsho (草書) styles are the most simplified styles and Master Takase's favorite. While very beautiful, these styles are often difficult to read even by specialists.
一路順風
ichiro junpū
Everything is Going Well
A fair wind the whole way, said of a journey that went well, wished before one, and of any course that goes smoothly.
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
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Explanation
一路順風 is a word about the whole road: reported after a journey that went well, wished before one, and, as a figure, said of any course that goes smoothly. In the Japanese sentences our study found from before 1945, the first in items of 1918, Japanese took it chiefly as the figure and fastened it most often to its own proverb of raising sail on a fair wind, 順風に帆を上げる; the four post-war idiom books we could read in excerpt give the figure and the farewell. Our title, Everything is Going Well, is the figure of a smooth course, in the words of a dictionary's gloss.
The sister of 一路順風 is 順風満帆, junpū manpan, fair wind and full sail, the wish for the voyage itself, sold here as its own design.
一路順風 is composed of the words 一路 (read ichiro) meaning "the whole way" and 順風 (read junpū) meaning "favorable wind".
一路順風 is found at Wikisource as early as a thanksgiving a Tang official wrote in 858 after escaping a mutiny, in which the journey went well; the Ming and Qing novels use it as the stock sentence of a good journey, Qing novels have it said at partings, and Chinese used it too of any course that goes smoothly.
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We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 一路順風.
