New Aikido Kakejiku

This scroll was commissioned for a new Aikido dojo. If you are interested in having a custom scroll made please view www.sales.customjapanesecalligraphy.com or email to sales@customjapanesecalligraphy.com.

The top portion contains an Enso, and the bottom vertical writing says Nihon Goshin Aikidou. It is written in the semi-cursive, gyousho, japanese calligraphy style by Yoshimi "Ryugyoku" Maples. The customer requested a Fukuro Hyougu style scroll with a black cloth and red suji. It has an Ebony Enshu wood jikusaki (Kokutan Enshu) and light gold (usukin) hanging string.





Dimensions as follows:

Name in Kanji	Name in English	Size in Bun	Size in Inches
天	Ten	127	15.15
天	Partition Top	92	10.97
筋	Suji	0.5	0.00
天	Partition Bottom	35	4.18
紙本の幅さ	Artwork Width	55	6.56
紙本の長さ	Artwork Length	218	26.01
柱	Pillars	20	2.39
地	Chi Top	12	1.43
筋	Suji	0.5	0.00
地	Chi Middle	15	1.79
筋	Suji	0.5	0.00
地	Chi Bottom	40	4.77
掛け軸の幅さ	Scroll Width	95	11.33
掛け軸の長さ	Scroll Length	413.5	49.33

 

Karate Scroll - Ichinen 一念

This scroll is going to Europe. It was purchased as a gift from one Matial Artist to another.

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The phrase Ichinen can mean one thought or determined purpose. Possibly used as motivation to continue intense training in spite of pain or discomfort.

This particular scroll is written in the Full Cursive style called Sousho, by Yoshimi Yamada Maples, whose Natori calligraphy name assigned by her Sensei is Ryugyoku.

The cloth is a silk imported from Japan that has a very slight ivy pattern in it. Because of the small pattern, I used a larger Karakusa (arabesque) pattern with the gold on cream ichimonji.

Dimensions of the kakejiku in Bun (traditional Japanese measurement), Millimeters and then Inches.
Name in Kanji Name in English Size in Bun Size in Millimeters Size in Inches


天 Ten 118 / 357.54 / 14.08

上一文字 Ue Ichimonji 8 / 24.24 / 0.95

紙本の幅さ Artwork Width 77 / 233.31 / 9.19

紙本の長さ Artwork Length 106 / 321.18 / 12.64

柱 Pillars 23 / 69.69 / 2.74

下一文字 Shita Ichimonji 4 / 12.12 / 0.48

地 Chi 78 / 236.34 / 9.30

掛け軸の幅さ Scroll Width 123 / 372.69 / 14.67

掛け軸の長さ Scroll Length 314 951.42 37.46

Eiwa Haiku Wallscroll英和俳句掛け軸

This customer wanted a kakejiku 掛け軸that would take a haiku俳句 created in English and translated into Japanese. To get the proper translation it was difficult to follow the 5-7-5 On criteria. However, to capture the true meaning of the poem, we felt it was important to utilize a rule called jiamari 字余りto provide for accurate meaning of the poem.

The shodou is written in three lines, which contradicts Wikipedia’s statement that haiku are written in a single line. Ryugyoku used creative license to indent the first character of each line to emphasize each individual line in the poem. It was written in the Gyousho style with the smaller brush called Hosofude. The poem reads:

真の愛は特別　Makoto no Ai wa Tokubetsu

時に降りきり　Toki ni Orikiri

人生を変える　Jinsei wo Kaeru

(Because this scroll is a gift we will not post the English translation until a later time.)

The scroll is made with a taupe cloth in the Maru Hyougu 丸表具style. I used the gold clouds on red-orange to correlate the above haiku with another Japanese expression. 女心は秋の空 Onnagokoro wa Aki no Sora. This phrase means a woman’s mind changes as quickly as the Autumn sky (at sunset).This captures the essence of the fleeting nature of love. The scroll is accented with a beautiful Black lacquer Jikusaki with a gold band painted around the end. The customer also ordered a beautiful Fuchin that complements the Kireji color of the wallscroll.

If you would like to order a custom scroll there are three ways to get started: 1. Go to my shopping site at www.shop.customjapanesecalligraphy.com 2. Download my scroll design workbook from my website at www.customjapanesecalligraphy.com to read about the concepts behind kakejiku or wallscroll design. 3. E-mail to me directly at sales@customjapanesecalligraphy.com