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危険を冒す
kiken o okasu
Take Risks
Brave the danger.
Master Takase creates this beautiful scroll when your order is placed. Personally preparing the ink and brushing your art that proudly bears her signature and seal. This is an original work of art.
Description
Take Risks in Japanese is 危険を冒す which is read kiken o okasu
危険を冒す (kiken o okasu): brave the danger.
危険 kiken is danger, cited from 737; を marks the object; 冒す okasu is to do a thing knowingly in the face of danger, the verb Japanese also uses of defying weather and profaning the sacred, so the phrase has more edge than take risks: it is what a person does knowing the cost. It is a set expression with its own dictionary entry.
危険 is neither singular nor plural, so the title's risks has no counterpart to lose.
The phrase came in with the translators of the early Meiji years: 中村正直 wrote it for braved dangers in his 1870 Japanese of Smiles's Self-Help and for Mill's incur the risk in 1872, and the English-Japanese dictionaries set it beside to run a risk by 1904.
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 危険を冒す.
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 Japanese paper that are layered so the scroll hangs straight and will not warp over time. 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
