Semi-Cursive · gyōsho 行書 · VS5C
Semi-Cursive or gyōsho (行書) styles are a simplified and softer form of the kaisho styles. Gyōsho styles can be read by most Japanese.
危険を冒す
kiken o okasu
Take Risks
Brave the danger.
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
危険を冒す (kiken o okasu): brave the danger.
危険を冒す is to brave a danger: to go ahead knowing the cost. 冒す is the verb Japanese uses for putting out to sea through wind and waves, so the phrase has more edge than the English take risks. It is a set expression with its own dictionary entry, and a phrase of decision.
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.
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