Japanese and Chinese art

The artist gentleman has 40 years of experience to making Chinese brush Calligraphy art.

     This is a perfect gift for weddings, holidays, anniversaries, friends and family.

                 All custom requests will be provided special for you, so this is a one of kind that only you will possess.   

 P1 - Chinese Calligraphy Painting     $38  (6"x6" silver brushed metal frame)

 Love is a special feeling that fills your heart. You show love in a smile, a kind word, a thoughtful act or a hug. Love is treating people and things with care and kindness because they mean so much to you. Love is contagious. It keeps spreading.

 It's very common for couples to say "I love you" in Chinese. However, in Japanese, "love" is not a term used very often. In fact, a person is more likely to say "I like you" rather than "I love you" in Japanese. So this word is known, but seldom spoken. Can also be defined as "affection".

  P2 - Chinese Calligraphy Painting    $38  (6"x6" silver brushed metal frame)

 This Character is pronounced "fu" in Chinese.

The character "fu" is posted by virtually all Chinese people on the doors of their homes during the Spring Festival (closely associated with the Chinese New Years). One tradition from the Zhou Dynasty (beginning in 256 B.C.) holds that putting a fu symbol on your front door will keep the goddess of poverty away.

This character literally means good fortune, prosperity, blessed, happiness, and fulfillment

 P3 - Chinese Calligraphy Painting    $ 12   (2.5"x 3.5" red brushed metal frame)

 The simplest form of "peace" which can also be translated as "harmony".
 

P4 - Chinese Calligraphy Painting     $35   (6"x6" silver brushed meal frame)

 Alone, this character has a broad span of possible meanings. These meanings include relaxed, quiet, rested, contented, calm, still, to pacify, peaceful, at peace, soothing or soothed.

This character and even the pronunciation was borrowed from Chinese and absorbed into both Japanese and Korean. In all these languages, this character is pronounced like "an".

To win success immediately upon arrival;  to gain an immediate victory; to win instant success.

This is the kind of happiness that involves being satisfied and content. This can also suggest the actions of "to satisfy" or "to meet the needs of".  In Chinese, the Kanji for this word is an alternate Chinese form.  Happy is he who is content. To be content with one's lot; to rest content with.

    P7 - Chinese Calligraphy Painting    $6   (3.9"x 4.9" black wood frame)

Love is a special feeling that fills your heart. You show love in a smile, a kind word, a thoughtful act or a hug. Love is treating people and things with care and kindness because they mean so much to you. Love is contagious. It keeps spreading.

 It's very common for couples to say "I love you" in Chinese. However, in Japanese, "love" is not a term used very often. In fact, a person is more likely to say "I like you" rather than "I love you" in Japanese. So this word is known, but seldom spoken. Can also be defined as "affection".

 This Character is pronounced "fu" in Chinese.

 The character "fu" is posted by virtually all Chinese people on the doors of their homes during the Spring Festival (closely associated with the Chinese New Years).

 One tradition from the Zhou Dynasty (beginning in 256 B.C.) holds that putting a fu symbol on your front door will keep the goddess of poverty away.

This character literally means good fortune, prosperity, blessed, happiness, and fulfillment.

 This character is used in a lot of compound words in the Asian world. Alone, this character has a broad span of possible meanings. These meanings include relaxed, quiet, rested, contented, calm, still, to pacify, peaceful, at peace, soothing or  soothed.

 This character and even the pronunciation was borrowed from Chinese and absorbed into both Japanese and Korean. In all these languages, this character is pronounced like "an".

  P10 - Chinese Calligraphy Painting   $30   (8.5"x8.5" black wood frame)

 Love is a special feeling that fills your heart. You show love in a smile, a kind word, a thoughtful act or a hug. Love is treating people and things with care and kindness because they mean so much to you. Love is contagious. It keeps spreading.

It's very uncommon for couples to say "I love you" in Chinese. In fact, a person is more likely to say "I like you" rather than "I love you".  So this word is known, but seldom spoken. Can also be defined as "affection".

 This single character is often part of other words with similar meanings. Alone, this character can mean to believe, truth, faith, fidelity, sincerity, trust and confidence in Chinese, Korean and Japanese. It is one of the five basic tenets of Confucius.

 In Chinese, it sometimes has the secondary meaning of a letter (as in the mail) depending on context, but it will not be read that way when seen on a wall scroll.

 Can be defined as "long life" or "longevity" in the simplest form.

 Please note that Chinese use a simplified version of this character - it also happens to be the same simplification used in mainland China. .

  P13 - Chinese Calligraphy Painting    $30    (9.5"x 12" black wood frame)  

This is a common gift for Chinese couples getting married or newly married couples, but it is appropriate for anyone for whom you wish the greatest of happiness. As we say in the west, "Two heads are better than one" Well, in the east, two "happiness" are certainly better than one. This is not really a character that is pronounced very often - it's almost exclusively used in written form. However, if pressed, most Chinese people will pronounce this "shuang xi" (double happy) although literally there are two "xi" characters combined in this calligraphy (but nobody will say "xi xi").
If you select this character, I strongly suggest the festive bright red paper for your calligraphy. Part of my suggestion comes from the fact that red is a good luck color in China, and this will add to the sentiment that you wish to convey with this scroll to the happy couple.

  P14 - Chinese Calligraphy Painting    $10   (2.5"x 3.5" red brushed metal frame)

This Character is pronounced "fu" in Chinese.

 The character "fu" is posted by virtually all Chinese people on the doors of their homes during the Spring Festival (closely associated with the Chinese New Years).

 One tradition from the Zhou Dynasty (beginning in 256 B.C.) holds that putting a fu symbol on your front door will keep the goddess of poverty away.

This character literally means good fortune, prosperity, blessed, happiness, and fulfillment.

  P15 - Chinese Calligraphy Painting    $6   (2.5"x 3.5"black brushed metal frame)

This is a single-character form of happiness that holds the ideas of laughing and having a good time. It can also be translated as happy, glad, enjoyable, and sometimes, music.

This a really good character if your audience is Chinese.

This is not a word seen alone very often in Korean.

In Japanese, this character is written like the image shown to the right. If you order this from the Japanese master calligrapher, it will look like this instead of the character shown above.
Note: In Japanese, this has a meaning of comfort, ease, and enjoyment.

This is the character for dragon in Chinese, old Korean, and Japanese.
If you were born in the year of the Dragon, you . . .
Have a strong body and spirit.
Are full of energy.
Have vast goals.
Have a deep level of self-awareness.
Will do whatever you can to "save face".

This means feelings, emotions, passions, and sometimes refers to the situation you are in (with your emotions). At least, this is the definition in Chinese and Japanese. This word is a bit stronger in Korean Hanja, where it means affection, love, compassion, sympathy, tender feelings, and emotions. Just as in Chinese and Japanese, this can also refer to your circumstances or your facts of life in Korean.