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大胆不敵
daitanfuteki
Fearless
Fearless: bold and afraid of no one, a Japanese word that praises nerve with swagger in it.
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
大胆不敵 (daitanfuteki): fearless, bold and afraid of no one, the nerve to do what others fear to do and to treat no one as a match.
A word that praises nerve: 大胆 (daitan) is boldness, having the nerve for what ordinary people shrink from, and 不敵 (futeki) is no rival, the word for someone so strong that no one can stand against them, and by extension someone who fears no one.
Together they praise nerve on both sides of the law: a father on the puppet stage presents his son to a Ming princess as born daitanfuteki, a novel gives the word to a lone rider who resolves to ride into the enemy camp, and it is said as well of the villain of a ghost story and of a burglar who dozes off in the bed he has robbed. That is the edge a person who chooses it should feel: this is nerve with swagger in it, I fear no one, where 不動心 (fudōshin) is stillness and 勇気 (yūki) is courage.
Fearless is the English Hepburn's dictionary gave 不敵 in 1867, and daring; audacious beside it keeps the edge.
大胆不敵 is composed of the words 大胆 (read daitan) meaning "fearless; bold; daring; audacious" and 不敵 (read futeki) meaning "daring; fearless; bold; intrepid".
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