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Font Designs are Master Takase's unique designs. Often she will use her own style or a combination of fonts and, without a classification limit, create exactly the look she wants.
Bashō - How admirable, to see lightning, and not think life is fleeting
inazuma ni satoranu hito no tattosa yo
Basho (芭蕉), on the person who sees lightning and does not read it as a sign that life is fleeting.
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
How admirable,
to see lightning,
and not think life is fleeting [1]
|
inazuma ni satoranu hito no tattosa yo |
稲妻に さとらぬ人の 貴さよ |
| bashō | 芭蕉 |
Bashō wrote this verse in the autumn of 1690, at Gichū-ji on Lake Biwa, in a letter to his disciple Kyokusui, who was away on duty in Edo. The letter scolds the disciples left behind in Ōmi for their easy verse and easy lives, and above the verse Bashō quotes a warning a Zen teacher had given him: "half-raw Zen, half-raw Buddha: that is the demon realm." In Buddhist teaching a flash of lightning is the standard picture of how quickly everything passes; the Diamond Sutra closes on it. So a half-trained student who sees lightning knows what he is supposed to feel, feels it, and takes that small shiver of all is fleeting for enlightenment. That reflex is the half-raw Zen. Bashō's admiration goes to the person the lightning does not enlighten: who sees it, and lets it be lightning. The verse was first printed in 1692 with the character 貴 the scroll carries. Bashō's own letter spells the last word tattosa.
References:
[1] Translation by Robert Hass, The Essential Haiku (Ecco, 1994), p. 24.
Delivery
The scroll is completed within 1–3 business days and is shipped from Master Takase's studio in Washington State by USPS Priority Mail. It arrives ready to display.
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About Our Scrolls
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
Master Takase personally brushes your Japanese scroll when you order. Each scroll proudly bears her red seal, 英利, and her signature.
The scrolls are 12 1/4" W × 43" H (31 × 109 cm) with real silk borders and Japanese paper that are layered so the scroll hangs straight and will not warp over time. The scrolls themselves are made by Sankō (株式会社三幸) in Gifu prefecture, which has been making high quality scrolls since 1947, and we have worked with Sankō for over two decades.
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