A Name Translated into a Kakejiku

This scroll was also made for a customer I met at the Nihon Matsuri in downtown Salt Lake on April 27th. It takes me about a month and a half to create a handmade scroll. The person wanted their name Nativi transliterated into Japanese. So my wife made this translation for the sounds in his name.
Na 成 = To Be or Have
Ti (Chi) 千 = One Thousand
Vi (Bi) 孫 = Descendants

This is on a very nice Pure silk with a cherry blossom design.

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Scroll Making Class Pics

These are pictures from my first scrollmaking class that I have held locally. The students use my published book and we do everything step by step. This was the third class. To complete the course it requires 5 classes at $20.00 per class and all materials are provided. We completed to stage 2a on Saturday June 15, 2019.

Fall Down Seven Times Get Up Eight Kakejiku

This was a kakejiku or Wallscroll made for a customer I met at the Nihon Matsuri in Salt Lake City on April 27, 2019. He wanted me to make a scroll with the mountain cloth and this particular Japanese kotowaza or proverb. It was brushed by my wife Yoshimi Yamada "Ryugyoku" Maples. She is a really talented calligrapher.

Because I had so little of the mountain cloth,  I made it into a Sandan Hyougu style scroll. It is completed with ivory plastic jikusaki and the Usukin (light gold) hanging string.

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Pair of Japanese Calligraphy Scrolls

These scrolls were made for a customer in Florida. The sayings are from the Karate Kid II movie. I tried to get the cloths to match the ones in the original dojo.
I enjoyed making these for the customer.

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