Eri's Choice · VD3B
Eri's Choice is a design that does not keep strictly to one style; it is Master Takase's own artistic choice.
人生良好
jinsei ryōkō
Life is Good
Life is good.
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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Your scroll is brushed when you order it and completed within 1 to 3 business days.
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Explanation
人生良好 reads as a report that all is well: life, in good condition. 良好 is the word of the report card and the hospital chart, so to a Japanese eye the four characters are a status line, life: good. It is nearer to all systems go than to a sigh of contentment. It is plain and cheerful, the way the English is.
人生良好 is a sentence for a life where things are going right, or for someone for whom they have started to.
人生良好 is composed of the words 人生 (read jinsei) meaning "life" and 良好 (read ryōkō) meaning "good; favorable".
House Japanese for the English Life is Good: 人生, life, set beside 良好, the word for a thing in good condition. No Japanese book or dictionary prints the four characters as a phrase; the house's design of it is on record from January 2011, and one other calligraphy seller's page offers it by 2015.
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