Showing posts with label Scroll for Ninja Practice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scroll for Ninja Practice. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Bujinkan Ninjutsu Wallscroll

This kakejiku or wallscroll was commissioned for a practitioner
of Ninjutsu. He wanted a simple style scroll, but was concerned about the quality of the calligraphy. My wife works really hard to try and get all characters evenly spaced and balanced and I think this one was well written in the Gyousho style.

The scroll is in a navy silk, with gold on gold karakusa for the ichimonji. The jikusaki are Ivory plastic in the 9 bun size. I used the larger size because this customer also purchased the fuchin on the bottom, which are ceramic pieces to weight the scroll. Dimensions as follows:


Name in Kanji Name in English Size in Bun Size in Inches
Ten 115 13.72
上一文字 Ue Ichimonji 7 0.84
紙本の幅さ Artwork Width 53 6.32
紙本の長さ Artwork Length 220 26.24
Pillars 18 2.15
下一文字 Shita Ichimonji 4 0.48
Chi 70 8.35
掛け軸の幅さ Scroll Width 89 10.62
掛け軸の長さ Scroll Length 416 49.63