Cursive · sōsho 草書 · VC6B
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.
此の父にして此の息子有り
kono chichi ni shite kono musuko ari
Like Father, Like Son
Like father, like son, and in Japanese the likeness is praise.
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
此の父にして此の息子有り (kono chichi ni shite kono musuko ari): like father, like son, and in Japanese the likeness is first praise.
Given this father, this son: in Japanese the likeness is first praise, said of a son who is his father's equal, often of a son who carries on his father's work or dies as his father did. It is a Confucian line that Japanese has quoted for two centuries, and it says child; English says like father, like son of a fault as readily as of a virtue, and Japanese has it too: the dictionaries call the blame sense a misuse, though writers have used it that way since at least 1905. What decides the sense is who says it of whom: said to a son of his father, it is praise.
Master Takase brushes 息子, son, in place of the proverb's 子, child, so that the line is for a son; its companion, Like Father, Like Daughter, is offered on its own.
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