Small Tansaku sized Wallscroll

This was a refurbished scroll for a customer from the GSBF in 2015. It is a Yamato style looking painting with a poem, river and cherry blossoms.

It is mounted in the three step (Sandan Hyougu) style. The chuumawashi cloth is a dark brown with an Ivy and Chrysanthemum arabesque. The ichimonji has a wave pattern and is gold on white background. The ten/chi is a khaki colored benberugu cloth. It is finished with rosewood jikusaki and the Kodai Saniro hanging string.

Dimensions of the scroll as follows:

Name in Kanji	Name in English	Size in Bun	Size in Inches
天	Ten	114	13.60
上中廻し	Ue Chuumawashi	39	4.65
上一文字	Ue Ichimonji	12	1.43
紙本の幅さ	Artwork Width	19	2.27
紙本の長さ	Artwork Length	118	14.08
柱	Pillars	18	2.15
下一文字	Shita Ichimonji	8	0.95
下中廻し	Shita Chuumawashi	23	2.74
地	Chi	72	8.59
掛け軸の幅さ	Scroll Width	55	6.56
掛け軸の長さ	Scroll Length	374	44.61

Chinese Calligraphy Scroll

Here is a scroll I made for Chinese calligrapher Richard Man. Getting older, I do not like to make these large scrolls, but that seems to be what people want.

It is simply done with a grey cloth and blue ichimonji in the maru hyougu style. It is finished with a navy hanging string and wood jikusaki.

Hummingbird Scroll

This is a scroll of a hummingbird painted by Ronald Reekers. I met Reekers さん at the Golden State Bonsai Convention this fall in 2015. The scroll is in a Nidan Hyougu style with a border of ichimonji completely surrounding the painting. It is finished with a Rosewood Jikusaki (紫檀塗）and a Gold 金茶　Hanging String.

If you would like a custom scroll made for your bonsai display, home or karate dojo, please contact to sales@customjapanesecalligraphy.com

Scroll dimensions as follows:

Name in Kanji	Name in English	Size in Bun	Size in Inches
天	Ten	92	10.97
上中廻し	Ue Chuumawashi	29	3.46
上一文字	Ue Ichimonji	2	0.24
紙本の幅さ	Artwork Width	30	3.58
紙本の長さ	Artwork Length	103	12.29
柱	Pillars	8	0.95
下一文字	Shita Ichimonji	2	0.24
下中廻し	Shita Chuumawashi	19	2.27
地	Chi	58	6.92
掛け軸の幅さ	Scroll Width	46	5.49
掛け軸の長さ	Scroll Length	303	36.15

Aikido Kakejiku

This is an order for a custom Aikido Kakejiku for a dojo on the East Coast. It was made with a rose/wine colored cloth in the Maru Hyougu style. It is paired with a gold on gold ichimonji and a rosewood jikusaki. The hanging string was the kincha (gold).

It is written in gyousho style, by Yoshimi Yamada Maples.

If you would like to order a custom handmade gift such as this contact to sales@customjapanesecalligraphy.com.

Dimensions as follows:

	Name in English	Size in Bun	Size in Inches
天	Ten	102	12.17
上一文字	Ue Ichimonji	13	1.55
紙本の幅さ	Artwork Width	55	6.56
紙本の長さ	Artwork Length	221	26.36
柱	Pillars	17	2.03
下一文字	Shita Ichimonji	8	0.95
地	Chi	70	8.35
掛け軸の幅さ	Scroll Width	89	10.62
掛け軸の長さ	Scroll Length	414	49.39

Sanso Collection Okada Hanko

I have been really blessed to work on limited reproductions of several scrolls in the Sanso Collection. I do not have rights to the photos so can not post the finished scrolls. One painting was a long work of a landscaped in the Fukuro Hyougu style. It had suji bordering the entire painting. The end result was a scroll about 8 feet long by 1 foot wide. Okada Hanko (岡田半江）was a Japanee painter that lived from (1782-1846). Here are links to samples of his work.

Sanso Collection - Fugai Ekun

I have been blessed to work on mounting several prints into scrolls for the Sanso Collection (山荘コレクション) owned by the late Peter Drucker. As I do not own any rights, I can not post the pictures themselves, but will share my own personal feelings as I get to work on framing these paintings and my connection to what these artists say to me. This is a painting by Fugai Ekun (1568-1654). Based on the link below, these are the characters 風外 I believe his last name translates to based upon the link below. http://zenpaintings.com/artist-fugai.htm This particular painting is titled Bodhidharma Crossing the Yangtze on a Reed. This is based on some of the traditional lore surrounding the figure Daruma, which you can read about here. http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/daruma.shtml This scroll was done in the Yamato Hyougu style. It may have been more suited in a Butsuhyougu style, but the owner was trying to emulate the original styling of the scroll. What I really like is the cloth selections for this scroll. Two dark cloths were used, and typically I like a light to dark, or dark to light combination. However, in this case the black contrasting with the dark brown seems to reinforce the image of the painting.

Sanso Collection - Painting by Urakami Gyokudo

I have been blessed to work on mounting several prints into scrolls for the Sanso Collection (山荘コレクション) owned by the late Peter Drucker. As I do not own any rights, I can not post the pictures themselves, but will share my own personal feelings as I get to work on framing these paintings and my connection to what these artists say to me. The first print I worked on, is by Urakami Gyokudo (浦上玉堂). Urakami Gyokudo was a Japanese painter, musician, poet and calligrapher who lived from 1745 to 1820. While alive, he was a famed player of the zither, and posthumously as a painter. The specific painting I have worked on is titled, "Quietly Observing Summer Mountains". It is a very large print almost 21 inches wide by 50 inches tall. In it there is a landscape painting with a man on a bridge. When I first looked at the painting, I assumed it was summer because of the dress of the man, and the prominent willow tree painted, which is often a symbol of summer. There is the usual stream running through the low valley and three peaks. What really caught my eye in this painting was a dabbed ink at the very top of the highest peak. I do not know if it is really anything, but to me is very reminiscent of the shape of the Buddha. Now, I do not know much about the teachings of Buddhism, but from my Judeo-Christian background, I felt that Urakami is not just communicating the man observing his surroundings, but realizes that from his vantage point, he must find a way to enlightenment (in other words, climb to reach the Buddha) and seek a path along the rokudo. I may be reading more into this than there really is, but that has been my impression everytime I get to see the print.