Jiun · 自運 · VD3B
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.
千客万来
senkyaku banrai
Flood of Customers
A flood of customers, a thousand guests coming ten thousand times, the wish a shop hangs at its door for a trade that never stops.
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
千客万来 (senkyaku banrai): a flood of customers, a thousand guests coming ten thousand times, the wish a shop hangs at its door for a trade that never stops.
The thousand and the ten thousand are not counted but piled up, the way the dictionaries put it: many, and more. The phrase is Japanese, made out of Chinese parts by people who painted signs; no Chinese text we have searched has the four characters together.
Brushed for a new shop, the word goes back onto the door it was made for.
The four-character idiom 千客万来 is composed of the kanji 千 (read sen) meaning "thousand", 客 (read kyaku) meaning "customers", 万 (read ban) meaning "ten thousand" and 来 (read rai) meaning "visits".
The term is used as a wish for "doing a roaring business" or for "a constant stream of customers".
千客万来 is a Japanese-made shop-sign phrase with no Chinese source, first found in 1805 in 萩庵荻声's comic picture-book 茶漬原御膳合戦, where a famous sign-painter writes it on the lantern of a crowded tea-and-rice shop on the Shinagawa road; by 1811 it hung on storytelling halls and was joked about in senryū.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 千客万来.
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
