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 «Rose»: 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 traveling a road of your own, and bringing with you the sign that something good is coming.
Your name carries the meaning of holding the tone like the note that keeps the beat, and bringing the sign that something good is coming.
Your name carries the meaning of waking like the drop of dew at daybreak, and bringing with you the sign that something good is coming.
Your name carries the meaning of waking like the drop of dew at daybreak, and having the plan for what is coming already drawn.
Your name carries the meaning of traveling a road of your own, and carrying the plan for what is coming already drawn.
Your name carries the meaning of keeping the beat with the note that holds the tone, and drawing the plan for what is coming.
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☕ buy me a coffeeEverything above is drawn by a typeface: a thousand Roses, 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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