いろはほのめかし（英語）

Kana Calligraphic Writing

               What a gorgeous expression of the human soul as seen through the eyes of our hands... blending together the masterful flows of the ever important graphing tool, the brush, with the images of our heart’s desires. Such is the romance of “Iroha”, a scripture that is the graphed knowledge and beauty of the Heian court period. The Heian period was the most golden and glorious time that the Japanese have ever experienced. 


"It is in bloom of the violet that may nestle up to the place where light shines and here the news of the hills."

Just as the name describes,平安, peace and tranquility, it was a time of peace that had never existed anywhere else on earth. A heavenly peace filled with equality, love, understanding, humor, joy, and splendid art with days that never ended in rain or storm unless the land needed it. The time was also shrouded in mystery, even in the mainland, China and the Middle East wanted a taste of the sacred land that was filled with gold and food and beauty beyond that of India or the Garden of Eden. 

"I say joy of early spring respectfully. I wish you a wonderful year as one dies and another ushers into birth of existence."

        This glorious period is not as ancient as it perceived to be though; it roughly began 750 years after the death of Jesus Christ. So it is not considered to be as archaic as ages before. From 800-1150AD this nostalgic and limbic time within the end of the World’s old era and the beginning if the modern medieval ages had it become a perfect terrarium to with hold this peaceful maturity that gave us the romantic calligraphy we enjoy today.

"My memories of former lovers should be weakened, if I cannot bear the thread that could not last for a life long time."

Handsome princes and matchless beauties of yore were the incredible people who inhabited Japan in that amazing era, they defied logic today and left us with shimmering glimpses of their glory that really was only a few short centuries ago.

"The autumn leaves in the early morning have turned red, the autumn deepened, and so did my understanding of life"