起死回生 kishi kaisei Miraculous Comeback

Miraculous Comeback in Japanese is 起死回生 which is read kishi kaisei

起死回生 (kishi kaisei): a miraculous comeback, a recovery from the brink.

起死回生 brings back what was all but lost. Its first sense is a doctor's: to raise a dying patient and return them to life. From that it fits anything pulled back at the last moment, a nation, a business or a game won in its final inning. The first character means to raise, not to wake, so the word belongs to a recovery and never to a funeral. Whether you hang it for a comeback you made or one you are still fighting for is yours.

This beautiful art makes an excellent gift as a reminder of a great comeback victory or to remind one that where there is a will there is still a way.

起死回生 began as a Chinese physician's phrase for raising the dying and returning the dead to life, first known in a Tang-era recipe as the Song editors printed it in 1066; Kyoto printers set it in Chinese books from 1639, and its first known Japanese writer is Nakae Tōju 中江藤樹, praising the four legendary physicians in a book written about 1641 and first printed in 1649.

We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 起死回生.

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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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 real silk borders and Japanese paper that are layered so the scroll hangs straight and will not warp over time. The scrolls themselves are made by Sankō (株式会社三幸) in Gifu prefecture, which has been making high quality scrolls since 1947, and we have worked with Sankō 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