Cursive · sōsho 草書 · VC2A
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.
仏陀 / 佛陀
budda
Buddha
The Buddha, the awakened one.
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
仏陀 is the Buddha as Japan writes it today, with 仏, the everyday shape of 佛. It names a title, not one man: most often Śākyamuni, and also anyone who has truly woken. The word is also read butsuda. Japan also writes it 佛陀, with the character in its formal dress.
The word is the Sanskrit buddha, the one who has woken, written in Chinese by its sound: in the earliest texts as 浮屠 and as 佛 alone, then in the fuller 佛陀, standing alone, as far as is known, from the Western Jin, the works dated as the CBETA edition dates them save one collection the scholarship dates to the fifth century, and frequent in the canon from the late fourth century; Japan took the word with the Buddhist books.
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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 仏陀 / 佛陀.
