Round curves. Only one possible form.
Straight strokes. Also a single form — this is how Japan writes names from abroad.
Thousands of characters, each one with its own meaning. Many of them are read «Laura»: none of them is the correct one.
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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Your name carries the meaning of having a road ahead of you to travel, and living a good life on it.
Your name carries the meaning of starting the day with the freshness of dew, and taking a real taste for living.
Your name carries the meaning of keeping the freshness of the drop of dew at daybreak, and the fineness of a silk that falls with elegance.
Your name carries the meaning of holding the tone like the note that does not move, and carrying the elegant line of an orchid.
Your name carries the meaning of having the road open ahead of you, and drawing toward you what is still to come.
Your name carries the meaning of keeping the beat without ever losing it, and enjoying life wherever you are.
Your name carries the meaning of carrying the freshness of dew at daybreak, and the elegant line of an orchid.
did you like it more than you expected?
☕ buy me a coffeeEverything above is drawn by a typeface: a thousand Lauras, 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.



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