Eri's Choice · VD3C
Eri's Choice is a design that does not keep strictly to one style; it is Master Takase's own artistic choice.
生け花 ikebana Flower Arrangement
Flower arranging: the Japanese name of the art and of what it makes.
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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Your scroll arrives boxed, with a printed insert describing the words in detail.
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Ships in 1-3 days from Washington State
Your scroll is brushed when you order it and completed within 1 to 3 business days.
Your scroll ships from Master Takase's studio in Washington State. Shipping is calculated at checkout. We ship worldwide.
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Explanation
生け花 names three things at once: the act of setting cut branches and flowers in a vessel, the arrangement that results, and the art itself. The flowers are cut, yet the word calls them alive. The art reads it more boldly: the arranger gives a cut branch back the life it had on the hill.
The word joins 生ける, to keep alive, to 花, flowers; it is first known in a movable-type print of the flower manual 仙伝抄 that the National Diet Library dates to the years 1615 to 1644, whose colophon claims a transmission going back to 1445, and there it is another name for flowers set in a vessel; dictionaries of 1871 and 1892 still give it as an offshoot of 立花, and when it came mostly to name the whole art no source read settles.
Learn More About These Words
We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of 生け花.
