重い魂… (omoi tamashii…) “A heavy soul…”

A Japanese calligraphy artwork. There are three lines of vertical text in black ink on a white background.

重い魂 / A heavy soul

苦心の勝利 / A hard-fought victory

昔と同じものはない / Nothing’s the same as it used to be

A commission for a client to give to his beloved as a Christmas present. It’s three lines from their favourite song.

The song is originally in English so I translated it into Japanese, with much appreciated help from my Japanese teacher 🙏.

I wanted the translation to:

  • sound natural
  • have the same “feel” as the original English
  • have similar line length

I hope we did a good job. What do you think?

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