夏雲奇峰 (natsu-gumo-ki-hou) “Summer clouds shaped like strange mountains”

A Japanese calligraphy artwork. The writing means "summer clouds shaped like strange mountains".

Some seasonal calligraphy specially for summertime!

The kanji are:

夏 = summer
雲 = cloud(s)
奇 = strange
峰 = peak

It references the white fluffy clouds of summer which take many different shapes, including strange mountains!

This phrase is a special kind of Japaneses idiom known as a 四字熟語 (よじじゅくご、yo-ji-juku-go), or 4-character idiom. As the name suggests, these are idiomatic phrases made of 4 kanji characters.

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