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運が向く
un ga muku
Fortune Smiles
Fortune smiles, one's luck turns one's way.
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
Fortune Smiles in Japanese is 運が向く which is read un ga muku
運が向く (un ga muku): fortune smiles, one's luck turns one's way.
運が向く is the moment luck comes your way and things begin to go well. 向く is to turn toward, so the picture is luck turning to face you. It is what a person says when the tide of a life turns: there, my luck has turned.
The English fortune smiles is the same picture in a more literary register, luck personified and turning its face toward you, and the two match idiom for idiom, which is the truest translation a phrase like this can have. On a wall it is a hope, and a good one to give.
This art encourages us that good fortune is just ahead. un ga muku makes a positive and inspirational gift.
運が向く is Edo speech, said by a scheming samurai in Santō Kyōden's illustrated novel 長髦姿蛇柳 of 1817 and by Danshichi in Tsuruya Nanboku's kabuki 𢅻雑石尊贐 of 1823, and alive after them in Meiji fiction, rakugo and Higuchi Ichiyō.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 運が向く.
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.
Sending it as a gift? Add your message at checkout and we will include it.
Shipping is calculated at checkout from your address; within the United States it is $13 to $23. We ship worldwide, and any import charges for your country are shown at checkout before you pay.
Every order is covered by our 30-day money-back guarantee. If your scroll arrives damaged, or we made an error, we replace it or refund you in full, including shipping. Refund policy
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
