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

Mary

メアリー
from Hebrew Miryam — "the beloved, light over the waters"
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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
愛明莉
me-a-ri
love, clarity, and jasmine
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iv · about kanji i

愛明莉

  • 愛mean overflowing love, loved by everyone
  • 明aclarity, a clear head
  • 莉rijasmine, the white flower with a strong scent
a loved, clear-headed name — for someone adored who keeps her head.
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of being full of love and loved by everyone, keeping a clear head, and carrying the scent of jasmine.

v · kanji ii
恵藍璃
me-a-ri
the open hand, deep blue, and the glass jewel
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vi · about kanji ii

恵藍璃

  • 恵megiving, sharing out what you have
  • 藍aa deep blue
  • 璃ricolored glass, the jewel that lets the light through
a generous, deep name — for someone who gives and shines with it.
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of sharing what you have, carrying it in a deep blue, and shining like a jewel of colored glass.

see the other versions
vii · there is more

There are five more versions you are not seeing.

  • 萌彩理— the sprout and the color, with the reason of things
  • 芽晶凛— the bud and the crystal, with temper
  • 愛逢里— love and good meetings, in a place of her own
  • 恵綾律— the open hand and figured silk, at a rhythm of her own
  • 萌蒼利— the sprout and the open sky, with a quick mind
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iii 萌彩理
me-a-rithe sprout, color, and reason
  • 萌methe sprout, the grass that shows in spring
  • 彩acolor, liveliness
  • 理rithe reason of things, understanding how they work
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of sprouting the way grass sprouts in spring, putting color into what you touch, and understanding the reason of things.

choose this one
iv 芽晶凛
me-a-rithe bud, crystal, and temper
  • 芽methe bud of new possibilities
  • 晶athe clear shine of crystal
  • 凛ritemper, holding together
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of keeping inside the bud of what is starting, holding the clarity of crystal, and your temper when it gets hard.

choose this one
v 愛逢里
me-a-rilove, the meeting, and a village of her own
  • 愛mean overflowing love, loved by everyone
  • 逢athe meeting, the person who appears on your way
  • 里rithe village, the warm place where people gather
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of being full of love and loved by everyone, meeting good people along the way, and being the warm place where people gather.

choose this one
vi 恵綾律
me-a-rithe open hand, figured silk, and a rhythm of her own
  • 恵megiving, sharing out what you have
  • 綾afigured silk, the pattern of the weave
  • 律riliving by their own rules and at their own rhythm
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of sharing what you have, carrying the elegance of figured silk, and living at your own rhythm.

choose this one
vii 萌蒼利
me-a-rithe sprout, the open sky, and a quick mind
  • 萌methe sprout, the grass that shows in spring
  • 蒼athe blue of an open sky, the freshness of what is young
  • 利rithe edge of a quick mind
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of sprouting the way grass sprouts in spring, carrying the freshness of an open sky, and solving things with a quick mind.

choose this one
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viii · wallpaper
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愛明莉
Mary
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愛明莉
Mary
Being full of love and loved by everyone, keeping a clear head, and carrying the scent of jasmine.
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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.

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ix · from his own hand

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

Everything above is drawn by a typeface: a thousand Marys, 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 Mary — the same for any Mary. 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.

愛明莉
Mary
T-shirt
愛明莉
Mug
愛明莉
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