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.
世界平和
sekai heiwa
World Peace
World peace, the peace of the world, peace among all the nations of the earth and the wish for it.
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
Peace among the nations and the wish for it, a word that no party owns: it has been the aim of Christian reformers and peace societies, the word diplomats gave to tsars and foreign secretaries, a nationalist's program and a socialist's hope, an emperor's word to his envoys, a postwar parliament's resolution and Hiroshima's first peace declaration, and each has used it against the others, which is why it can belong to anyone. What it means has not moved, the absence of war and the wish for it; whose wish it carries is the part that is yours. World Peace is the English every Japanese-English dictionary gives, and it is right; in this compound 平和 is the absence of war, and harmony is its older sense, not the one the compound carries.
世界平和 is composed of the words 世界 (read sekai) meaning "the world" and 平和 (read heiwa) meaning "peace; harmony".
First found in 1879, in two Japanese translations of European political writing, one of them carrying John Stuart Mill's the peace of the world; 平和 in its sense of the absence of war is itself first found in 1868.
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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 世界平和.
