Custom Nanakorobi Yaoki

We recently produced a custom plague as a presentation piece.
Our client liked the look of our standard "Fall Seven times and stand up eight", but wanted it as a gift to celebrate forty years of karate training for a friend.
We were requested to add a name, Sensei  and possibly rank to the plaque.
We always pride ourselves on trying to get a good balance to our work and suggested that we use a katakana translation for the name and kanji for title and rank along with the English script.

Customising standard work is undertaken at an additional charge just to recover any time spent in translation and additional graphic design.

Soto Sabisu sends our congratulations to Phil Owen Sensei and hope you enjoy many more years of training, Osu!

We will keep a limited stock of the standard plaque, specials can be made to order with approximately a 2 to 3 week delivery dependent on workload going through the shop. Current costings can be found in the relevant shop page please click on the button below to view.

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Nana korobi ya oki

Fall down seven times, get up eight 七転び八起き

Graphic design in block font with additional Hanko seal added

"Nana korobi ya oki" (literally: seven falls, eight getting up) means fall down seven times and get up eight. This speaks to the Japanese concept of resilience. No matter how many times you get knocked down, you get up again.
Even if you should fall one thousand times, you just keep getting up and trying again. You can see this ethic reinforced in all facets of Japanese culture including education, business, sports, the martial arts It is especially important to remember the sentiment expressed in this proverb when times are dark. There are no quick fixes in life and anything of real worth will necessarily take much struggle and perseverance. Success does not have to be fast—what’s more important is that one simply does their absolute best and remains persistent.  We will keep a limited stock without the additional Hanko, specials can be made to order with approximately a 2 to 3 week delivery dependent on workload going through the shop. 

Current costings can be found in the relevant shop page please click on the button below to view.

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The 7 virtues of Bushido

The 7 virtues or principles that the Samurai strove to achieve at the highest levels would have enabled them to become the consummate diplomat.

These principles are:
Gi - Righteousness – rightness or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; (moral) uprightness, integrity; honesty; morality; straightness.
Yu - Courage – the quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious or inconsiderate; the ability to do things which one finds frightening; …”Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it.” ~ Mark Twain
Jin - Benevolence – disposition to do good; charitable kindness; an altruistic gift or act.
Rei - Respect – an attitude of consideration or high regard; good opinion, honour, or admiration; polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.
Makoto - Honesty – the act, quality, or condition of being honest; to be truthful.
Meiyo - Honour – an objectification of praiseworthiness, respect (for example: something that represents praiseworthiness, respect).
Chugi - Loyalty – unswerving in allegiance; faithful in allegiance to one’s lawful sovereign or government; faithful to a private person to whom fidelity is due; faithful to a cause, ideal, custom, institution, or product; the state of being loyal; fidelity.

We will keep a limited stock without the additional Hanko, specials can be made to order with approximately a 2 to 3 week delivery dependent on workload going through the shop. 

Current costings can be found in the relevant shop page please click on the button below to view.

"Click" to go to - Plaques and Name Board section shop page

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