names · 漢字 — cinema ES your wallpaper ↓
i · the name
a Japanese calligrapher traveling the world
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Emma

エマ
from Germanic ermin — "whole, complete"
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ii · three scripts

Three Japanese scripts. Two of them are fixed. The third one is not.

That is where a person has to choose, not a translator: a Japanese calligrapher who has already written the names of more than 500 people by hand, on the street, one by one.

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He chose 7 versions for this name. The one he recommends most is in the second half.
iii · kanji i
笑真
e-ma
the smile, and what is genuine
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iv · about kanji i

笑真

  • 笑ethe smile, always there
  • 真mawhat is genuine, nothing feigned
a bright, genuine name — for someone who smiles without pretending.
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of smiling always, and being genuinely what you appear to be.

v · kanji ii
瑛円
e-ma
crystal, and the harmony of what is round
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vi · about kanji ii

瑛円

  • 瑛ethe transparent shine of crystal
  • 円mawhat is round, harmony without edges
a clear, calm name — for someone who leaves no sharp edges behind.
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of shining with the clarity of crystal, and keeping the harmony of what is round around you.

see the other versions
vii · there is more

There are five more versions you are not seeing.

  • 恵舞— the open hand, with the grace of someone dancing
  • 映満— standing out, with the full moon
  • 縁麻— the meeting, with the plainness of linen
  • 栄真— prosperity, without becoming someone else
  • 江円— the wide river, with the harmony of what is round
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iii 恵舞
e-mathe open hand, and the dance
  • 恵egiving, sharing out what you have
  • 舞mathe dance, the elegance of someone in motion
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of sharing what you have, and moving with the grace of someone dancing.

choose this one
iv 映満
e-mastanding out, and the full moon
  • 映estanding out, looking right wherever you are
  • 満mafilling up completely, the full moon
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of standing out wherever you are, and filling up the way the moon fills.

choose this one
v 縁麻
e-mathe meeting, and the fiber of linen
  • 縁ethe encounter, the tie that appears
  • 麻mathe fiber of linen, what is natural and clean
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of caring for the meetings life brings you, and being plain and clean like the fiber of linen.

choose this one
vi 栄真
e-maprosperity, and what is genuine
  • 栄eprospering, having what is yours flourish
  • 真mawhat is genuine, nothing feigned
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of seeing what you start prosper, and going on being genuinely what you are.

choose this one
vii 江円
e-mathe wide river, and the harmony of what is round
  • 江ethe wide river, what opens out
  • 円mawhat is round, harmony without edges
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of opening out like a wide river, and keeping the harmony of what is round around you.

choose this one
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viii · wallpaper
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笑真
Emma
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笑真
Emma
Smiling always, and being genuinely what you appear to be.
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It is not just a wallpaper — take the meaning with you too.

Choose the background, the lettering, whether to show your name or the meaning of your kanji — and download it ready for your lock screen or to share.

🎨 make your own wallpaper →
ix · from his own hand

This is how the calligrapher writes — three pieces, one hand.

Everything above is drawn by a typeface: a thousand Emmas, the same stroke. Not this one. The calligrapher dips the brush and writes yours a single time — the ink opens where it opens, the stroke breaks where it breaks.

風露依 — written with a brush by the calligrapher
夢玖 — written with a brush by the calligrapher
慈英夢寿 — written with a brush by the calligrapher
three pieces by the calligrapher · brush and ink on paper · none of them says your name yet
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30 USD — and there is no second copy.
x · for you, not for the name

Shall we choose your kanji together?

Everything above was chosen for the name Emma — the same for any Emma. A commission is different: you tell the calligrapher what matters to you, what you want to protect and who you want to become — and together you pick the best kanji.

If you are getting it tattooed, or you seriously want a kanji that is only yours — start here.

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xi · wear it

The same kanji, on something you can touch.

Your name printed on what you use every day. We do not sell the shirt: we give you the file and you take it to your printer.

笑真
Emma
T-shirt
笑真
Mug
笑真
Tote bag
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no background, at print size — there you choose the kanji, the lettering style and the orientation

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千 · Japanese calligrapher · traveling the world · 2026