Eri's Choice · VD5B
Eri's Choice is a design that does not keep strictly to one style; it is Master Takase's own artistic choice.
長寿と繁栄を
chōju to han'ei o
Live Long And Prosper
Live long and prosper: the Vulcan blessing, in a Japanese that was a Japanese wish first.
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
長寿と繁栄を (chōju to han'ei o): live long and prosper.
A wish, in the form Japanese gives a wish: long life and prosperity, with the verb of wishing left unsaid. That is how Japanese blesses, and it is why the phrase ends on を. It is the standard Japanese for the Vulcan blessing. The wish was Japanese before it was Vulcan. So a person who chooses it for the salute, or for the plain wish under it, gets a real blessing either way. Which they mean is theirs.
長寿と繁栄を is the wish for a birthday or a new venture, and for the friend who knows the salute.
The English is the Vulcan blessing, first spoken in the Star Trek episode Amok Time in 1967; the two Japanese nouns stood together in a note of 1746, as what a star of long life guards, a Meiji book of English idioms used them in 1898 for may you live long and prosper in a Western banquet toast, and who first gave them to a Vulcan in Japanese is not settled.
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We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 長寿と繁栄を.
