Full Cursive Calligraphy Kakejiku

 My wife wrote this Sousho calligraphy. If you would like to purchase, the piece is $100.00. The Chuumawashi is a pure silk, and the Ten/Chi is a silk. The total length is 40" and the total width is 9". It is a spring poem.

Alternatively, If you would like a custom piece made please contact to sales@customjapanesecalligraphy.com or call or text to 801-214-4064

Dee Teller #9 Sing (Spirit Woman)

This is the ninth painting of Dee Teller's exhibition titled Asia Speaks. http://www.paradisecenterforthearts.org/gallery/exhibitions/

It is titled Sing (Spirit Woman). I felt this needed a more neutral cloth, so I selected a flower pattern with a light brown. I used a gold on gold Ichimonji to keep the focus on the painting. The Jikusaki are bamboo. This is a large scroll.

 

Dimensions as follows:
Name in Kanji Name in English Size in Bun (Inches)


天 Ten 115 (13.72)

上一文字 Ue Ichimonji 15 (1.79)

紙本の幅さ Artwork Width 220 (26.24)

紙本の長さ Artwork Length 424 (50.58)

柱 Pillars 17 (2.03)

下一文字 Shita Ichimonji 8 (0.95)

地 Chi 75 (8.95)

掛け軸の幅さ Scroll Width 254 (30.30)

掛け軸の長さ Scroll Length 637 (75.99)

Martha First Name Translation in Sousho or Grass Style Writing

This scroll was a commissioned scroll and is already sold. To work on designing your own scroll, contact Jonathan Maples at sales@customjapanesecalligraphy.com.  

This is for the name Martha. It was translated phoenetically as Maasa or マアサ in Hiragana. Because it is a foreign word, it would be more appropriate to list it as ﾏｰｻ in katakana. It was decided to use the characters 真 which is in the word truth, reality or genuineness. The second character used was 晨 which is a character indicating activity and vibrancy.

The tan color of the scroll is complemented with a black kakehimo and black wooden lacquered jikusaki which give the scroll an extra look of elegance in its design.

Kachofugetsu - Full Cursive (Sousho) Style

This Beautiful Scroll was Commissioned and is already Sold.

If you would like help to design a personalized scroll for your home, office, dojo or other need with either calligraphy or a sumi-e picture, please contact us at our e-mail or go to our webstore.

This scroll was designed with the customer at the Golden State Bonsai Federation Convention held in Riverside, California on November 5-8, 2009. The customer wanted a more subdued scroll than the Kachoufuugetsu (Flower, Bird, Wind, and Moon) 花鳥風月 scroll that I had created in my wife's Kaisho style Japanese writing. He thought the cloth, which was a goldenrod to represent the sun was a little garish. This term Kachofuugetsu is a four character idiomatic expression used in Japanese literature to depict the beauty and serenity of the natural world and evokes an apprecation and respect for nature.

As a result he picked a beautiful Cocoa shade which would remind one of very rich, fertile soil of our mother earth. He also wished to use a full cursive style. Congratulations go out for being the first customer to select Sousho, sometimes referred to as grass writing, as the preferred style of Japanese Calligraphy. In addition, this customer selected a Dark Blue Kakehimo (Hanging String) which does not make the scroll have any break in continuity when hanging. The scroll is stamped with Ryugyoku's Inkan or Hanko (Americans say Chop, but I have never like this word) on both the upper right hand corner and lower left hand corner of the scroll. Perhaps this would allow the bonsai to be displayed on either the left or the right hand side per the rules of Seki Kazari 席飾り. I would need to check with someone more knowledgeable than myself. Finally, the scroll is capped with beautiful stained wood Jikusaki. These pieces add to the scrolls elegance, and allow the colors between the cloth and the Jikusaki to transition very smoothly.