#Japanese

Debianの日本語フォントをNoto CJKに変えたいなーと思っていたので変更するマージリクエストとKDE環境でfcitx5を使うためのマージリクエストを送った。採用されるといいなー #debian #forky #japanese #kde #linux

Phoenix Hall #Amida Nyorai Statue, Byodo-in, #Japan. This is the only posthumous work of #Buddhist sculptor Jocho, who was a master of the #Japanese style of carving and perfected the Yosegi-zukuri technique. His graceful and gentle style was praised by the aristocrats of the #Heian period, and he was known as 'the original style of #Buddha', and Jocho style became popular in #Buddhist statue carvings thereafter.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism

Phoenix Hall #Amida Nyorai Statue, Byodo-in, #Japan. This is the only posthumous work of #Buddhist sculptor Jocho, who was a master of the #Japanese style of carving and perfected the Yosegi-zukuri technique. His graceful and gentle style was praised by the aristocrats of the #Heian period, and he was known as 'the original style of #Buddha', and Jocho style became popular in #Buddhist statue carvings thereafter.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism

An interesting one for me, as it's the first departure from Latin script. Aware that I could go very wrong I had it checked over before colouring in 😁

Japanese is read either horizontally left to right or vertically right to left; the former is the phrase chosen in the poll. The latter has a number of possible readings, but none of them seemed too controversial. I mean, not appropriate for the project, but that's fine - I was more concerned about accidentally saying something both rude *and* unintended 😬

#theFFSproject #Japanese

An interesting one for me, as it's the first departure from Latin script. Aware that I could go very wrong I had it checked over before colouring in 😁

Japanese is read either horizontally left to right or vertically right to left; the former is the phrase chosen in the poll. The latter has a number of possible readings, but none of them seemed too controversial. I mean, not appropriate for the project, but that's fine - I was more concerned about accidentally saying something both rude *and* unintended 😬

#theFFSproject #Japanese

Quotation marks in #Chinese, #Japanese and #Korean:

• Simplified Chinese: “Primary”, ‘Secondary’
• Traditional Chinese: 「Primary」, 『Secondary』
• Japanese: 「Primary」, 『Secondary』
• Korean: “Primary”, ‘Secondary’

https://www.typotheque.com/articles/typesetting-cjk-text

Quotation marks in #Chinese, #Japanese and #Korean:

• Simplified Chinese: “Primary”, ‘Secondary’
• Traditional Chinese: 「Primary」, 『Secondary』
• Japanese: 「Primary」, 『Secondary』
• Korean: “Primary”, ‘Secondary’

https://www.typotheque.com/articles/typesetting-cjk-text

日本語を書く練習がしたいと思うならば、日本語アカウントをたくさんフォローすれば良いと思います。このスレッドで私がフォローさせてもらっている日本人を一人ずつ紹介します。（このツイートに全員一度メンションしちゃうと、みなさんの通知欄がたいへんなことになると思うので、一人ずつにします。）
If you want to practice writing Japanese, I recommend following Japanese accounts. In this thread, I'll introduce the Japanese accounts I follow one at a time. (I don't want to mention them all in one toot, because their notifications might get out of hand.) #日本語練習 #日本語 #Japanese

日本語を書く練習がしたいと思うならば、日本語アカウントをたくさんフォローすれば良いと思います。このスレッドで私がフォローさせてもらっている日本人を一人ずつ紹介します。（このツイートに全員一度メンションしちゃうと、みなさんの通知欄がたいへんなことになると思うので、一人ずつにします。）
If you want to practice writing Japanese, I recommend following Japanese accounts. In this thread, I'll introduce the Japanese accounts I follow one at a time. (I don't want to mention them all in one toot, because their notifications might get out of hand.) #日本語練習 #日本語 #Japanese

#TodayILearned that the Japanese verb “to torment” or “to tease” is 嬲る (naburu). The main Kanji is written as a woman 女 surrounded by two men 男.

BUT! There is an alternative rendition: 嫐る (also pronounced naburu), whose Kanji is written as a man 男 surrounded by two women 女.

How’s that for equal opportunity?

#language #Japanese

What’s your favorite rendition for “torment”?

#TodayILearned that the Japanese verb “to torment” or “to tease” is 嬲る (naburu). The main Kanji is written as a woman 女 surrounded by two men 男.

BUT! There is an alternative rendition: 嫐る (also pronounced naburu), whose Kanji is written as a man 男 surrounded by two women 女.

How’s that for equal opportunity?

#language #Japanese

What’s your favorite rendition for “torment”?

E te whānau, Rakugo is back!

I’m performing for Whānau Day as part of the Kōanga Festival 2026 at Te Pou Theatre. Come along and enjoy some traditional Japanese comedy right at the home of Māori theatre 🌟

🩵 Whānau Day is a fun-filled day with live music, theatre shows, workshops, kēmu, kai, kapa haka and pūrākau from around the world. There's something for everyone!

Whānau Day | Kōanga Festival 2026
📅 Saturday 12 September
⏰ 10am-3pm
📍 Te Pou Theatre, Corban Estate, Henderson

Photo Credit: Julie Zhu Photography

#rakugo #auckland #japan #japanese #comedy

@Kingu

That's funny. She wrote

蛇頭尾竜
(だとうりゅうび, datouryuubi)

The usual expression is

竜頭蛇尾
(りゅうとうだび, ryuutoudabi).

It means "A dragon's head, a snake's tail", and means "a strong beginning and a weak ending, an anticlimax."

Whereas hers means "a snake's head, a dragon's tail", which I guess you could interpret as a a somewhat weak start and powerful ending.

#Japanese

(She looks a bit like one of my students ^_^)

Japanese Yen: BoJ tightening debate supports JPY – Rabobank

Rabobank strategist Elwin de Groot highlights that Japanese policymakers are increasingly focused on achieving the inflation target sustainably and supporting the Japanese Yen. Following recent FX intervention, He argues that exchange-rate management ultimately needs monetary policy backing. Wi…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #Japanese #Japanesenews #news
https://www.alojapan.com/1523851/japanese-yen-boj-tightening-debate-supports-jpy-rabobank/

Hiroshi Yoshida, “Twelve Views of the #Japanese #Alps”

#Ukiyoe #WoodblockPrint #JapaneseArt

Hiroshi Yoshida, “Twelve Views of the #Japanese #Alps”

#Ukiyoe #WoodblockPrint #JapaneseArt

Here is another detail of my latest large drawing https://tilde.zone/@wim_v12e/116980609822507378

This is a portrait of Motoko Kusanagi, for details see https://quickandtastycooking.org.uk/articles/kusameikyuu/

#kusameikyuu

#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#攻殻機動隊

Four months ago I made the first study for one of the characters in my new drawing. Now the work is finally finished.

It is a scene from episode 11 "Affection 草迷宮" of Ghost in the Shell Stand-Alone Complex 2nd Gig (2004).

I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolour and Chinese ink on Fabriano Artistico paper (300 g/m² cold pressed "not"). The paper is 56 cm x 76 cm, so this is quite large in reality.

I have written a (very long, very geeky) blog article about the drawing and the background, in particular the Japanese cultural references.
https://quickandtastycooking.org.uk/articles/kusameikyuu/

I have tagged all posts with #kusameikyuu so you can find them easily if you are interested.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#攻殻機動隊

It is not possible to convey a large drawing through a small picture, so here is a detail. It is actually a portrait of the actress Kiki Kirin, who played in many Kore-eda movies.

https://
quickandtastycooking.org.uk/articles/kusameikyuu/

#kusameikyuu

#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#攻殻機動隊

I am building another #iOS app to help me learn #japanese . This one is not about reading, like Yomu, but about analyzing and explaining grammar in Japanese sentence.

Looking for fellow #japaneselanguage learners to test the beta available via TestFlight. Link and more info at https://setsumeiapp.kulman.sk/

#iosdev #languagelearning #translation #linguistics

I am building another #iOS app to help me learn #japanese . This one is not about reading, like Yomu, but about analyzing and explaining grammar in Japanese sentence.

Looking for fellow #japaneselanguage learners to test the beta available via TestFlight. Link and more info at https://setsumeiapp.kulman.sk/

#iosdev #languagelearning #translation #linguistics

Another detail of my drawing, focusing on some important objects: a temari and an oridzuru.
The text on some of the spines refers to the other character in the drawing.

Intrigued? Read my article "Lost in Memories" https://quickandtastycooking.org.uk/articles/kusameikyuu/

#kusameikyuu
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt

Another detail of my drawing, focusing on some important objects: a temari and an oridzuru.
The text on some of the spines refers to the other character in the drawing.

Intrigued? Read my article "Lost in Memories" https://quickandtastycooking.org.uk/articles/kusameikyuu/

#kusameikyuu
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt

It is not possible to convey a large drawing through a small picture, so here is a detail. It is actually a portrait of the actress Kiki Kirin, who played in many Kore-eda movies.

https://
quickandtastycooking.org.uk/articles/kusameikyuu/

#kusameikyuu

#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#攻殻機動隊

Four months ago I made the first study for one of the characters in my new drawing. Now the work is finally finished.

It is a scene from episode 11 "Affection 草迷宮" of Ghost in the Shell Stand-Alone Complex 2nd Gig (2004).

I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolour and Chinese ink on Fabriano Artistico paper (300 g/m² cold pressed "not"). The paper is 56 cm x 76 cm, so this is quite large in reality.

I have written a (very long, very geeky) blog article about the drawing and the background, in particular the Japanese cultural references.
https://quickandtastycooking.org.uk/articles/kusameikyuu/

I have tagged all posts with #kusameikyuu so you can find them easily if you are interested.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#攻殻機動隊

Four months ago I made the first study for one of the characters in my new drawing. Now the work is finally finished.

It is a scene from episode 11 "Affection 草迷宮", of Ghost in the Shell Stand-Alone Complex 2nd Gig.

I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolour and Chinese ink on Fabriano Artistico paper (300 g/m² cold pressed "not"). The paper is 56 cm x 76 cm, so this is quite large in reality.

I have written a (very long, very geeky) blog article about the drawing and the background, in particular the Japanese cultural references. https://quickandtastycooking.org.uk/articles/kusameikyuu/

I have tagged all posts with #kusameikyuu so you can find them easily if you are interested.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#攻殻機動隊

Four months ago I made the first study for one of the characters in my new drawing. Now the work is finally finished.

It is a scene from episode 11 "Affection 草迷宮", of Ghost in the Shell Stand-Alone Complex 2nd Gig.

I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolour and Chinese ink on Fabriano Artistico paper (300 g/m² cold pressed "not"). The paper is 56 cm x 76 cm, so this is quite large in reality.

I have written a (very long, very geeky) blog article about the drawing and the background, in particular the Japanese cultural references. https://quickandtastycooking.org.uk/articles/kusameikyuu/

I have tagged all posts with #kusameikyuu so you can find them easily if you are interested.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#攻殻機動隊

@book @GreenSkyOverMe so, character analysis is not really the same as "etymology" because etymology is about languages, about words. characters aren't languages or words, they're writing: a second-order device to represent a language. in many cases we simply don't have data about what's the original intended logic of a character. speculations abound, but ancient Chinese folk never left a manual "this is what we were thinking when we made up these compositions".

数 is a written abbreviation of 數, "to count". 數 is composed of 婁 and 攵 . the latter is originally a pictogram of a hand holding a tool (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:%E6%94%B4-seal.svg ), and it's easy to imagine that's related to "counting".

but what about 婁? well if you're used to characters, the moment that I decided 攵 was a hint about the meaning, I automatically assume that 婁 is probably a hint about the pronunciation. this is because over 90% of characters are "phono-semantic compounds", where one part suggests the broad meaning, and the other part pinpoints the pronunciation (Japanese: 形声文字 keisei-moji).

the meaning of 婁 is in fact obscure—Wiktionary gives "the constelation Lóu" and "feeble" and "to drag" and "a surname", all obsolete or dialectal. the original logic of the character compound is lost. all this is typical of elements that are more used for sound than meaning.

the Japanese pronunciation of 婁 is "ru" or "ro" (as in 牟婁 muro). 楼 "type of multi-story building" is rō. 熡 "flame" is rō. 螻 "mole cricket" is ru. 縷 "thread" is ru/rō. 僂 "bend" is ru. you get the idea. there's a lot more characters including 婁 but most of them are now obsolete, used in names only, or of historical interest only. in every case 婁 signals "this character is pronounced ru or rou".

now I'm using the Japanese pronunciations (on'yomi), but there's drift, and these hints can become imprecise. 屨 "straw sandals" is ku, not ru. and of course the 数 in 数学 is sū. (it is tought to have been *sroʔ or *sros in Old Chinese; most other words dropped the initial s-, but sū dropped the -r-).

so to answer the question:
- why is 女 in 数? It's part of 婁 (simplified with 米 in the top part) .
- and why is 婁 in 数? it is a hint to help remember the pronunciation.
- and why is 女 in 婁? the answer to this is lost to time. it was a compound of 爪 (hand grasping from above) + 角 (phonetic hint) + 女 (woman), but the original meaning is unclear.

I know that's not very satisfying but it's how Chinese characters actually work in real life, as opposed to the language-less semantic algebra used in cute stories for kanji mnemonics :)

#Japanese

@book @GreenSkyOverMe so, character analysis is not really the same as "etymology" because etymology is about languages, about words. characters aren't languages or words, they're writing: a second-order device to represent a language. in many cases we simply don't have data about what's the original intended logic of a character. speculations abound, but ancient Chinese folk never left a manual "this is what we were thinking when we made up these compositions".

数 is a written abbreviation of 數, "to count". 數 is composed of 婁 and 攵 . the latter is originally a pictogram of a hand holding a tool (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:%E6%94%B4-seal.svg ), and it's easy to imagine that's related to "counting".

but what about 婁? well if you're used to characters, the moment that I decided 攵 was a hint about the meaning, I automatically assume that 婁 is probably a hint about the pronunciation. this is because over 90% of characters are "phono-semantic compounds", where one part suggests the broad meaning, and the other part pinpoints the pronunciation (Japanese: 形声文字 keisei-moji).

the meaning of 婁 is in fact obscure—Wiktionary gives "the constelation Lóu" and "feeble" and "to drag" and "a surname", all obsolete or dialectal. the original logic of the character compound is lost. all this is typical of elements that are more used for sound than meaning.

the Japanese pronunciation of 婁 is "ru" or "ro" (as in 牟婁 muro). 楼 "type of multi-story building" is rō. 熡 "flame" is rō. 螻 "mole cricket" is ru. 縷 "thread" is ru/rō. 僂 "bend" is ru. you get the idea. there's a lot more characters including 婁 but most of them are now obsolete, used in names only, or of historical interest only. in every case 婁 signals "this character is pronounced ru or rou".

now I'm using the Japanese pronunciations (on'yomi), but there's drift, and these hints can become imprecise. 屨 "straw sandals" is ku, not ru. and of course the 数 in 数学 is sū. (it is tought to have been *sroʔ or *sros in Old Chinese; most other words dropped the initial s-, but sū dropped the -r-).

so to answer the question:
- why is 女 in 数? It's part of 婁 (simplified with 米 in the top part) .
- and why is 婁 in 数? it is a hint to help remember the pronunciation.
- and why is 女 in 婁? the answer to this is lost to time. it was a compound of 爪 (hand grasping from above) + 角 (phonetic hint) + 女 (woman), but the original meaning is unclear.

I know that's not very satisfying but it's how Chinese characters actually work in real life, as opposed to the language-less semantic algebra used in cute stories for kanji mnemonics :)

#Japanese

Did you know?

In Old Japanese, "papa" meant MOTHER.

Sound shift over 1000 years: p → f → h. Every papa became fafa, then haha 母.

Father evolved too: t → ch. Every titi became chichi 父.

Then in the 20th century, Japanese borrowed パパ and ママ from European languages. Now パパ means father.

Same syllables. Opposite parent. A thousand years apart.

#Etymology #Japanese #Linguistics #SoundChange

Did you know?

In Old Japanese, "papa" meant MOTHER.

Sound shift over 1000 years: p → f → h. Every papa became fafa, then haha 母.

Father evolved too: t → ch. Every titi became chichi 父.

Then in the 20th century, Japanese borrowed パパ and ママ from European languages. Now パパ means father.

Same syllables. Opposite parent. A thousand years apart.

#Etymology #Japanese #Linguistics #SoundChange

Been learning Japanese and kanji for the past month or so via Mango and WaniKani. Started off the right way, learning all of hiragana and katakana via Anki before I did anything else.

Japanese is kind of hard, but kanji are hard. It's incredible to me that there's an entire country and culture where basic literacy requires you to learn thousands of characters, each of which have multiple pronunciations and often multiple meanings.

#Japanese #LearningJapanese #Mango #MangoApp #WaniKani #Anki

So a question for students of #Japanese (particularly those who have also studied other spoken languages): Does Japanese spoken by natives feel "fast" to you?

I mentioned before that I recently learned that native #Japanese speakers speak faster than those of any other language, including Spanish. "Speak fast" in this context means "pack more sounds into a given unit of time. I started studying Japanese when I was 19, and I don't recall ever once thinking, wow, these people speak so fast. So I just did a web search for "Japanese speak so fast," and sure enough, it's a thing. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=japanese+speak+so+fast

Met & know many western #Japan experts who are surprisingly ignorant about #Taiwan, the country that #Japanese are most likely to travel to.

Surprised to learn the same can be said about western #Taiwan and Taiwan-based #China experts - many I met haven't ever been to Japan.

Doesn't apply at all to #Japanese and #Taiwanese experts at all.

I started on the new drawing, a double portrait based on a scene from Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd Gig. You may have seen the studies I did for the two characters.

(https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116584896884568123, https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116347024591459783, https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116273585455601655)

This is the pencil setup of the full drawing.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#kusameikyuu

I started on the new drawing, a double portrait based on a scene from Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd Gig. You may have seen the studies I did for the two characters.

(https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116584896884568123, https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116347024591459783, https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116273585455601655)

This is the pencil setup of the full drawing.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#kusameikyuu

rustで一太郎ファイルを操作するライブラリを作っている。ファイルを解析した情報もドキュメント化してて素晴らしい！ #一太郎 #rust #Libreoffice #japanese

KimEJ/OpenJTD: Open-source JTD rendering engine and editor project for Ichitaro documents: https://github.com/KimEJ/OpenJTD

During an interview, a #Japanese expert noted that it was a major shock to the economy when #Sharp was acquired by a #Chinese company.

Except, it wasn't Chinese. It was #taiwanese From their perspective, it didn't matter - but from my perspective, it's dramatically different.

#Taiwan #Japan #China

One of our delayed suitcases lead to a rendition of the #Japanese children’s song is "Oni-no-Pantsu" (おにのパンツ) on the drive home, along the lines of:

マミーの ぱんつ は いい ぱんつ、
たかい ぞ、たかい ぞ !

#oninopantsu #おにのパンツ

Happy #Tokyo #typhoon everybody!

No better time to get back on the kanji bandwagon, with the best iOS/Android Nihongo learning app out there 😉

https://bsky.app/profile/kanjibox.bsky.social

#Japan #japanese #nihongo #kanji

Kanji: 処

dispose, manage, deal with, sentence, condemn, act, behave, place

ショ
ところ　-こ　お.る

処分 (しょぶん) — disposal
処理 (しょり) — processing
対処 (たいしょ) — dealing with
処方 (しょほう) — prescription
処する (しょする) — to manage
処置 (しょち) — measure
懲戒処分 (ちょうかいしょぶん) — disciplinary measures
対処法 (たいしょほう) — coping method
処遇 (しょぐう) — treatment (of a person)
会計処理 (かいけいしょり) — accounting

✍ 5
🏫 小6

#kanji #japanese

Buddhist Guardian Lion (#Shishi), #Japanese, 13th-14th century (#Kamakura), wood with polychrome, #Japan.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism

Buddhist Guardian Lion (#Shishi), #Japanese, 13th-14th century (#Kamakura), wood with polychrome, #Japan.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism

New server, new intro My name is Renkon or renkotsuban. I'm 4世日系人, born and raised in Hawaiʻi, been living in #Japan since 2008, and am #nonbinary and go by they/them.

I keep myself busy by...
📝 #blogging @ https://renkotsuban.com
🎮 doing #GameDev with my partner Daikon as @nicegeargames
📰 making #zines highlighting #IndieGames from Japan @indietsushin
📚 #reading very slowly
💮 studying #Japanese
📸 taking amateur #photography
🏕️ yuru #camping

It's nice to meet you! 🤝

🧵 On my drive back from Oregon yesterday I stopped by the Tule Lake WWII Japanese concentration camp. It is now a vacant lot with only the stone monument seen below to mark the location & history.
1/6

#History #WWII #Japanese #CivilRights #Injustice #Racism #Liberty #America #War

🧵 On my drive back from Oregon yesterday I stopped by the Tule Lake WWII Japanese concentration camp. It is now a vacant lot with only the stone monument seen below to mark the location & history.
1/6

#History #WWII #Japanese #CivilRights #Injustice #Racism #Liberty #America #War

🧵 On my drive back from Oregon yesterday I stopped by the Tule Lake WWII Japanese concentration camp. It is now a vacant lot with only the stone monument seen below to mark the location & history.
1/6

#History #WWII #Japanese #CivilRights #Injustice #Racism #Liberty #America #War

#Japanese language learners: anyone have good resources for practicing verb and adjective conjugations? Especially interested in adjectives.

Finished my final study of the Major from from Ghost in the Shell. Inked with Chinese ink rubbed on an ink stone.

(previous stages:
watercolour only:
https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116544534263875055
pencil draft:
https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116495444645223834
)

Now I can start on the actual drawing I set out to make. Doing all these studies, and also writing up the background, is all part of the fun.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#kusameikyuu

Finished my final study of the Major from from Ghost in the Shell. Inked with Chinese ink rubbed on an ink stone.

(previous stages:
watercolour only:
https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116544534263875055
pencil draft:
https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116495444645223834
)

Now I can start on the actual drawing I set out to make. Doing all these studies, and also writing up the background, is all part of the fun.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#kusameikyuu

Hey, students of #Japanese. Today I find myself wondering how well known the idioms (?) popping up in my conversations today are common knowledge to intermediate-advanced Japanese speakers/readers. Which of the following do you 　　　know and understand?

みなまで言うな
ツーカー
ナウい
ちょんちょろりん
当たり前田のクラッカー
へんてこりん
良き良き
松の廊下
どんまい

Note: Some of these may just be corny, outdated slang. (And yet Granny Rachel continues to use them in daily conversation.)

TIL: the Japanese word シャボン (SHABON) means "soap", and was borrowed from Spanish jabón in the early 1600s. There is also サボン (SABON), also "soap", but borrowed from Portuguese sabonete. SHABON was common in the Edo era (1603--1868) but from the Meiji era onwards, the formerly literary word 石鹸 (sekken) became common parlance, and now SHABON is only used in the word シャボン玉 (SHABON-dama), "soap bubble", which often gets abbreviated to just SHABON. And that's how I came across it (in the song 片思いファイター by GO!GO!7188)

#Japanese

TIL: the Japanese word シャボン (SHABON) means "soap", and was borrowed from Spanish jabón in the early 1600s. There is also サボン (SABON), also "soap", but borrowed from Portuguese sabonete. SHABON was common in the Edo era (1603--1868) but from the Meiji era onwards, the formerly literary word 石鹸 (sekken) became common parlance, and now SHABON is only used in the word シャボン玉 (SHABON-dama), "soap bubble", which often gets abbreviated to just SHABON. And that's how I came across it (in the song 片思いファイター by GO!GO!7188)

#Japanese

片思いファイター (kataomoi faitaa)
ファイター means "fighter"
片思い means "unrequited love", kata is one-sided and omoi is though in general but also love or affection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNxmhl8fRP0
#theStudio
#Japanese

Next stage of my final study of the Major from from Ghost in the Shell, I applied watercolour paint. Still need to tint the labels on the spines. Then inking.

The paint is Kuretake Gansai Tambi, very pleasant to work with, even though it's not professional quality.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#kusameikyuu

Yotsuya Kaidan, the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge. Arguably the most famous #Japanese ghost story of all time, it has been adapted for film over 30 times and continues to be an influence on #Japanese horror today.

Yotsuya Kaidan, the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge. Arguably the most famous #Japanese ghost story of all time, it has been adapted for film over 30 times and continues to be an influence on #Japanese horror today.

Kanji: 武

warrior, military, chivalry, arms

ブ　ム
たけ　たけ.し

武器 (ぶき) — weapon
武将 (ぶしょう) — military commander
武装勢力 (ぶそうせいりょく) — armed group
武道 (ぶどう) — martial arts
武人 (ぶじん) — military man
武装 (ぶそう) — arms
武士 (ぶし) — samurai
武力 (ぶりょく) — armed might
武装組織 (ぶそうそしき) — armed organization
武夫 (ぶふ) — warrior

✍ 8
🏫 小5

#kanji #japanese

I started on my final study of the Major from from Ghost in the Shell, using a mechanical pencil and nice watercolour paper. Next, apply my new watercolour paint to it, then inking.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#kusameikyuu

Another character from TADC

#PixelArt #pixel #pixelfed #indiedev #indie #indiegame #fanart #drawing #fanart #fantasy #украрт #art #drawing #artwork #pathofexile #ドット絵トークン #game #games #illustration #inktober #halloween #asset #digitalart #digital #harvest #fall #autumn #mosstodon #house #china #japan #japanese #southkorea #asia #Tadc #circus #clown #entertainment #fun #jester #harlequin #buffoon

よしだともこ先生より。FreeWnnをWaylandに対応させたいけれどJserverやFreeWnn技術周りの資料はないですか?とよしだ先生に問い合わせがあったそう。FreeWnnはibus、Fxitx5も対応してないからその対応を始めたいそうですが、資料が無いそうで困っているらしいです #wnn #freewnn #japanese #linux #i18n #wayland #xorg #InputMethod

https://www.facebook.com/tomoko.yoshida.92754/posts/pfbid02MHHxAv5YdXGp12Vny44pv4SrucAGipvrVrH5B7Uek1LQLPcaJMCPefojn57VPFeul

Another character from TADC

#PixelArt #pixel #pixelfed #indiedev #indie #indiegame #fanart #drawing #fanart #fantasy #украрт #art #drawing #artwork #pathofexile #ドット絵トークン #game #games #illustration #inktober #halloween #asset #digitalart #digital #harvest #fall #autumn #mosstodon #house #china #japan #japanese #southkorea #asia #Tadc #circus #clown #entertainment #fun #jester #harlequin #buffoon

Reggae One is a very popular display #font often used in #Japanese boys' magazines and digital content. The sharpened ends give off a dynamic pulse, making this font ideal to express rhythm, movement and energy, or for emphasis.

🔗 https://github.com/fontworks-fonts/Reggae

A specific #Chinese font version called Tiejili, based on Reggae One, is also separately available from:

🔗 https://github.com/Buernia/Tiejili

“Your Code Displays Japanese Wrong”

A static site to link people to when their #code is displaying #Japanese wrong.

🔗 https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/

Just released Kotoba, a fast, fully offline Japanese–English dictionary, on Flathub.

Features: Flexible search (kanji, kana, rōmaji, or English), near instant results, detailed entries (readings, meanings, example sentences, usage notes), smart conjugation handling (maps inflected verbs/adjectives to base forms), and bookmarks.

Get it on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/net.trowell.kotoba

#flathub #gnome #gtk #Japanese #linux #rust

I got a new frame to put my drawings in, very minimal: I ordered two sheets of plexiglass with holes drilled at regular intervals. I put the drawing in between and close it with pieces of string.

This is what it looks like with two drawings side by side.

The drawings are characters from the #Japanese #film 海街 diary (umimachi diary, English title "Our little sister") by director Kore-Eda Hirokazu, Sachiko on the left and Suzu on the right.

#traditionalArt #drawing #portrait

Another colour in my new box of watercolour paints is prozaically called "cobalt blue". In Japanese, it is 瑠璃色 (ruri-iro)

瑠璃 (ruri) means "lapis lazuli" and is a shortened from 吠瑠璃 (beiruri), which is borrowed from Chinese 吠瑠璃 (fèiliúlí). That is a phonetic transcription of either Sanskrit "vaiḍūrya" (“cat's eye, beryl”) or Pali "veḷuriya" (“precious stone, lapis lazuli”). The term is common in Buddhist scriptures as it is one of the Four Treasures. Confusingly, 吠瑠璃 in Japanese means "beryl" and 瑠璃 can sometimes mean beryl too. Even more confusingly, 瑠璃色 (ruri-iro) means "azure".

What I like about 瑠璃 is that each of the characters is a combination of "jade, precious stone" (玉) with another character that is used purely for its phonetic value. 留 and 离 on their own are still pronounced "ru" and "ri".

"Lapis" is the Latin word for stone and "lazuli" is the genitive form of the Medieval Latin "lazulum", which is taken from the Arabic "lāzaward" which itself is taken from the Persian "lājevard". The Latin word means "sky" or "heaven"; so "lapis lazuli" means a "sky stone" or "stone from heaven". But the Arabic and Persian words don't have that meaning. Instead, Lajward seems to have been a place in Turkestan (now in Afghanistan) where the stone was mined.

The word azure also derives from Lajward but via Old French (12th C) "azur, asur", from a false separation of Medieval Latin lazur, lazuri (from Greek lazour), as though the "l" were the French article "le", "l'azur".

Cobalt blue is a very common colour but here it is a bit odd as the blue mineral in lapis lazuli, Lazurite, does not contain any cobalt.

#Japanese #Etymology

Another colour in my new box of watercolour paints is prozaically called "cobalt blue". In Japanese, it is 瑠璃色 (ruri-iro)

瑠璃 (ruri) means "lapis lazuli" and is a shortened from 吠瑠璃 (beiruri), which is borrowed from Chinese 吠瑠璃 (fèiliúlí). That is a phonetic transcription of either Sanskrit "vaiḍūrya" (“cat's eye, beryl”) or Pali "veḷuriya" (“precious stone, lapis lazuli”). The term is common in Buddhist scriptures as it is one of the Four Treasures. Confusingly, 吠瑠璃 in Japanese means "beryl" and 瑠璃 can sometimes mean beryl too. Even more confusingly, 瑠璃色 (ruri-iro) means "azure".

What I like about 瑠璃 is that each of the characters is a combination of "jade, precious stone" (玉) with another character that is used purely for its phonetic value. 留 and 离 on their own are still pronounced "ru" and "ri".

"Lapis" is the Latin word for stone and "lazuli" is the genitive form of the Medieval Latin "lazulum", which is taken from the Arabic "lāzaward" which itself is taken from the Persian "lājevard". The Latin word means "sky" or "heaven"; so "lapis lazuli" means a "sky stone" or "stone from heaven". But the Arabic and Persian words don't have that meaning. Instead, Lajward seems to have been a place in Turkestan (now in Afghanistan) where the stone was mined.

The word azure also derives from Lajward but via Old French (12th C) "azur, asur", from a false separation of Medieval Latin lazur, lazuri (from Greek lazour), as though the "l" were the French article "le", "l'azur".

Cobalt blue is a very common colour but here it is a bit odd as the blue mineral in lapis lazuli, Lazurite, does not contain any cobalt.

#Japanese #Etymology

I bought some new watercolour paints. They come in a beautiful cardbord box, lime green embossed in gold with the characters 顔彩耽美. On the inside of the lid is a colour card in Japanese with blank squares, they idea is that you paint it in yourself.

I am always interested in the origin of words, and particularly for colours. One of the colours in the box is called "horizon blue". But in Japanese it is called 勿忘草 "wasurenagusa". This translates as "forget-me-not" and is in fact a direct Japanese translation of the English name of the flower. In the Meiji era (1868-1912), horticulturists imported a variant (Alpine forget-me-not, myosotis alpestris) into the country for use in European-style gardens and the name dates from then.

The forget-me-not (myosotis sylvatica) is native to Japan but only in the northern region, which used to be called Ezo. The Ezo, also known as Emishi or Ebisu and were the non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan. The character Ashitaka in the Miyazaki anime Princess Mononoke is Emishi.

The flower is called 蝦夷紫 "ezomurasaki" meaning "Ezo purple". The "purple" is not because of the colour of the flowers but because a purple dye can me made from the roots of the plant.

#Japanese #JapaneseCulture

I bought some new watercolour paints. They come in a beautiful cardbord box, lime green embossed in gold with the characters 顔彩耽美. On the inside of the lid is a colour card in Japanese with blank squares, they idea is that you paint it in yourself.

I am always interested in the origin of words, and particularly for colours. One of the colours in the box is called "horizon blue". But in Japanese it is called 勿忘草 "wasurenagusa". This translates as "forget-me-not" and is in fact a direct Japanese translation of the English name of the flower. In the Meiji era (1868-1912), horticulturists imported a variant (Alpine forget-me-not, myosotis alpestris) into the country for use in European-style gardens and the name dates from then.

The forget-me-not (myosotis sylvatica) is native to Japan but only in the northern region, which used to be called Ezo. The Ezo, also known as Emishi or Ebisu and were the non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan. The character Ashitaka in the Miyazaki anime Princess Mononoke is Emishi.

The flower is called 蝦夷紫 "ezomurasaki" meaning "Ezo purple". The "purple" is not because of the colour of the flowers but because a purple dye can me made from the roots of the plant.

#Japanese #JapaneseCulture

i have a question for speakers of different languages regarding how the software you are using expresses the concept of "an action is currently happening" (examples in english: "Downloading updates..." / "Saving report.doc, please wait...")

so far i see the following options, please correct me or provide with additional ones, or info on languages i have not mentioned

#german / #deutsch: passive voice with phrases such as "wird heruntergeladen" (is being downloaded)

#french / #français: nouns corresponding to verbs, such as "lecture" (reading), "téléchargement" (down-/uploading) and "enregistrement" (saving)

#russian / #русский: likewise verbal nouns, such as "чтение" (reading), "загрузка" (loading/uploading), "сохранение" (saving)

#italian / #italiano: verbal nouns ending in -aggio

#japanese / #日本語: verbs ending in 中

#l10n #i18n #translation

i have a question for speakers of different languages regarding how the software you are using expresses the concept of "an action is currently happening" (examples in english: "Downloading updates..." / "Saving report.doc, please wait...")

so far i see the following options, please correct me or provide with additional ones, or info on languages i have not mentioned

#german / #deutsch: passive voice with phrases such as "wird heruntergeladen" (is being downloaded)

#french / #français: nouns corresponding to verbs, such as "lecture" (reading), "téléchargement" (down-/uploading) and "enregistrement" (saving)

#russian / #русский: likewise verbal nouns, such as "чтение" (reading), "загрузка" (loading/uploading), "сохранение" (saving)

#italian / #italiano: verbal nouns ending in -aggio

#japanese / #日本語: verbs ending in 中

#l10n #i18n #translation

I made some studies for a new drawing and posted them on my other account as they progressed. Here are the finished versions. The final drawing will be a double portrait with both characters. It's based on a scene from Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd Gig Episode 11 "Affection". The Japanese title is 草迷宮 (kusameikyuu; here it means "Kusanagi's labyrinth" but there is more to it).

#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt

The final coloured-in version of the study I posted last week (https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116312339205250398) and which complements the previous one (https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116273585455601655).

I will do another study of this character (the Major from from Ghost in the Shell), using a slightly different technique and better paper.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#kusameikyuu

The final coloured-in version of the study I posted last week (https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116312339205250398) and which complements the previous one (https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116273585455601655).

I will do another study of this character (the Major from from Ghost in the Shell), using a slightly different technique and better paper.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#kusameikyuu

A study for the second character in the double-portrait I am planning.

It's based on a scene from Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd Gig Episode 11 "Affection", but the look of the character, Motoko Kusanagi (草薙素子) is based on 攻殻機動隊 ARISE.

The next step is to apply watercolour to it. I will do another study of this part to experiment with different techniques and eventually move on to the full drawing.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#kusameikyuu

A study for the second character in the double-portrait I am planning.

It's based on a scene from Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd Gig Episode 11 "Affection", but the look of the character, Motoko Kusanagi (草薙素子) is based on 攻殻機動隊 ARISE.

The next step is to apply watercolour to it. I will do another study of this part to experiment with different techniques and eventually move on to the full drawing.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#kusameikyuu

We would love to hear more from #Mastodon and the #Fediverse !
At Ikiya, we love sharing stories about #Japanese culture, from the origins of our teas and crafts to the traditions behind washoku cuisine. We’d love to bring these conversations to life here too, but we need your help!
What would you like us to explore together?
Drop your ideas in the replies or boost this toot to spread the word: every suggestion counts!
#JapaneseCulture #adviceneeded #tealovers

Some kanji textbook for foreign learners of Japanese gives users a questionable mnemonic for remembering eki (駅), or train 😅

(The real origin story: 駅 is a simplified version of an older kanji combining "horse" with a character meaning "ask" or "lineup")

#japan #unseenjapan #japanese #languages

Sakurajima.Social is a comfy, non-toxic, and inclusive Sharkey server for Anime/Manga/Japanese media fans and Anime/Japanese media content creators.

(This server is run by the same people as the Mastodon server Sakurajima.Moe)

https://sakurajima.social

You can find out more at https://sakurajima.social/about or contact the admin account @sakurajima

#FeaturedServer #Anime #Manga #Japan #Japanese #Sharkey #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Sakurajima.Social is a comfy, non-toxic, and inclusive Sharkey server for Anime/Manga/Japanese media fans and Anime/Japanese media content creators.

(This server is run by the same people as the Mastodon server Sakurajima.Moe)

https://sakurajima.social

You can find out more at https://sakurajima.social/about or contact the admin account @sakurajima

#FeaturedServer #Anime #Manga #Japan #Japanese #Sharkey #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Kanji: 浜

seacoast, beach, seashore

ヒン
はま

横浜 (よこはま) — Yokohama (city)
浜松 (はままつ) — Hamamatsu (city)
白浜 (しらはま) — white sandy beach
砂浜 (すなはま) — sandy beach
京浜 (けいひん) — Tokyo and Yokohama
浜辺 (はまべ) — beach
海浜公園 (かいひんこうえん) — beachfront park
海浜 (かいひん) — seashore
浜風 (はまかぜ) — sea breeze
浜っ子 (はまっこ) — native of Yokohama

✍ 10
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 晶

sparkle, clear, crystal

ショウ

液晶 (えきしょう) — liquid crystal
結晶 (けっしょう) — crystal
液晶テレビ (えきしょうテレビ) — liquid crystal television
晶子 (しょうし) — crystallite
水晶 (すいしょう) — crystal
液晶パネル (えきしょうパネル) — liquid crystal panel
カラー液晶 (カラーえきしょう) — color LCD
液晶ディスプレイ (えきしょうディスプレイ) — liquid-crystal display
水晶体 (すいしょうたい) — crystalline lens (of the eye)
黄水晶 (きずいしょう) — citrine

✍ 12
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

A month ago I posted the first stage of a study I made (https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116103939009843763) I've finally finished it.

It's based on a scene from Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd Gig Episode 11 "Affection".
In Japanese the title is 草迷宮 (kusameikyuu). It means "Kusanagi's labyrinth", but there is more it. You could call it a homage.

It's going to be a double portrait, I've started on the study for the second character, and you know of course who that will be.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#kusameikyuu

A month ago I posted the first stage of a study I made (https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/116103939009843763) I've finally finished it.

It's based on a scene from Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd Gig Episode 11 "Affection".
In Japanese the title is 草迷宮 (kusameikyuu). It means "Kusanagi's labyrinth", but there is more it. You could call it a homage.

It's going to be a double portrait, I've started on the study for the second character, and you know of course who that will be.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese #drawing #art #traditionalArt
#kusameikyuu

Kanji: 浜

seacoast, beach, seashore

ヒン
はま

横浜 (よこはま) — Yokohama (city)
浜松 (はままつ) — Hamamatsu (city)
白浜 (しらはま) — white sandy beach
砂浜 (すなはま) — sandy beach
京浜 (けいひん) — Tokyo and Yokohama
浜辺 (はまべ) — beach
海浜公園 (かいひんこうえん) — beachfront park
海浜 (かいひん) — seashore
浜風 (はまかぜ) — sea breeze
浜っ子 (はまっこ) — native of Yokohama

✍ 10
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 晶

sparkle, clear, crystal

ショウ

液晶 (えきしょう) — liquid crystal
結晶 (けっしょう) — crystal
液晶テレビ (えきしょうテレビ) — liquid crystal television
晶子 (しょうし) — crystallite
水晶 (すいしょう) — crystal
液晶パネル (えきしょうパネル) — liquid crystal panel
カラー液晶 (カラーえきしょう) — color LCD
液晶ディスプレイ (えきしょうディスプレイ) — liquid-crystal display
水晶体 (すいしょうたい) — crystalline lens (of the eye)
黄水晶 (きずいしょう) — citrine

✍ 12
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 又

or again, furthermore, on the other hand

ユウ
また　また-　また.の-

又は (または) — or
又聞き (またぎき) — hearsay
又貸し (またかし) — subleasing
又木 (またぎ) — forked tree
猫又 (ねこまた) — mythical two-tailed monster cat
又もや (またもや) — once again
又も (またも) — again
又の名 (またのな) — alias
又と (またと) — in addition
又々 (またまた) — once again

✍ 2
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 又

or again, furthermore, on the other hand

ユウ
また　また-　また.の-

又は (または) — or
又聞き (またぎき) — hearsay
又貸し (またかし) — subleasing
又木 (またぎ) — forked tree
猫又 (ねこまた) — mythical two-tailed monster cat
又もや (またもや) — once again
又も (またも) — again
又の名 (またのな) — alias
又と (またと) — in addition
又々 (またまた) — once again

✍ 2
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/90817/steel-ball-run-jojos-bizarre-adventure

Host: #Netflix
When: 19 March 2026
Season: 1
Language: #Japanese
Genres: #Action #Anime #Fantasy #ScienceFiction

America, 1890. Johnny Joestar, a genius jockey now paralyzed from the waist down, chases after outlaw Gyro Zeppeli in a tough cross-continent horse race.
#tvseries #tvshows

Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/90817/steel-ball-run-jojos-bizarre-adventure

Host: #Netflix
When: 19 March 2026
Season: 1
Language: #Japanese
Genres: #Action #Anime #Fantasy #ScienceFiction

America, 1890. Johnny Joestar, a genius jockey now paralyzed from the waist down, chases after outlaw Gyro Zeppeli in a tough cross-continent horse race.
#tvseries #tvshows

We are #Ikiya and we are finally on #Mastodon and the #Fediverse !

We are a small #Japanese shop located in Treviso, near Venice, and we focus on bringing to Italy a selection of Japanese teas (such as #matcha), ingredients for your recipes, kimono and haori, handmade pottery and much more.

We would like to start leaving mainstream social media for good to connect with our customers in a different way, and this is our first step towards a better communication.

Happy to be here!

#introduction

We are #Ikiya and we are finally on #Mastodon and the #Fediverse !

We are a small #Japanese shop located in Treviso, near Venice, and we focus on bringing to Italy a selection of Japanese teas (such as #matcha), ingredients for your recipes, kimono and haori, handmade pottery and much more.

We would like to start leaving mainstream social media for good to connect with our customers in a different way, and this is our first step towards a better communication.

Happy to be here!

#introduction

My daughter just asked me how to say 厨二病 (中二病) in English. Looking through various translations, the one that strikes me as least awful is "teen angst," but it fails to capture the narcissism, pretentiousness, and sense of superiority of chūnibyō. "Main Character Syndrome" captures that aspect, but fails to identify the specific age bracket where this most commonly occurs, which is to say early teens. Please knock my socks off with an awesome translation. #Japanese #日本語 #厨二病 #中二病

My daughter just asked me how to say 厨二病 (中二病) in English. Looking through various translations, the one that strikes me as least awful is "teen angst," but it fails to capture the narcissism, pretentiousness, and sense of superiority of chūnibyō. "Main Character Syndrome" captures that aspect, but fails to identify the specific age bracket where this most commonly occurs, which is to say early teens. Please knock my socks off with an awesome translation. #Japanese #日本語 #厨二病 #中二病

You may feel you know your Japanese kanji pretty well. That is, until someone thrusts a hand-written sushi menu in front of you. Here's our quick guide to a number of common food-related kanji you may encounter on Japanese restaurant menus.

https://unseen-japan.com/tackling-food-kanji-in-japanese-menus/

#japan #japanese #unseenjapan #ujwebsite #food #travel

#Japanese #Buddhist Statue.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism

#Japanese #Buddhist Statue.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism

#Unicode #Emoji: #Japanese #Buttons

U+1F201 U+1F202 U+FE0F U+1F233 U+1F237 U+FE0F U+1F236 U+1F21A U+1F251 U+1F238 U+1F23A U+000A U+1F22F U+1F250 U+1F239 U+1F232 U+1F234 U+3297 U+FE0F U+3299 U+FE0F U+1F235

Called the #BattleOfLosAngeles in a mocking turn of phrase, a misplaced weather balloon caused panic over #Japanese invasion on #ThisDayInHistory in 1942, with antiaircraft batteries firing into the empty sky. In the end, three people died in car crashes and two of heart attack.

Called the #BattleOfLosAngeles in a mocking turn of phrase, a misplaced weather balloon caused panic over #Japanese invasion on #ThisDayInHistory in 1942, with antiaircraft batteries firing into the empty sky. In the end, three people died in car crashes and two of heart attack.

📣 New Podcast! "24 February 1942: Canadian Japanese deportations" on @Spreaker #canada #history #japanese
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/24-february-1942-canadian-japanese-deportations--69728382

Relive the chaos and charm of Great Teacher Onizuka! Episode 37 brings Onizuka's wild teaching style and unexpected heart—perfect for fans of classic 90s anime. Ready for laughs, lessons, and a bit of mayhem? Dive in and enjoy this iconic GTO moment! #GTO #GreatTeacherOnizuka #Anime #90sAnime #Onizuka #ClassicAnime #Japanese
https://tv.santic-zombie.ru/videos/watch/461b6cba-d42d-4787-83c3-29975185fe3f

Relive the chaos and charm of Great Teacher Onizuka! Episode 37 brings Onizuka's wild teaching style and unexpected heart—perfect for fans of classic 90s anime. Ready for laughs, lessons, and a bit of mayhem? Dive in and enjoy this iconic GTO moment! #GTO #GreatTeacherOnizuka #Anime #90sAnime #Onizuka #ClassicAnime #Japanese
https://tv.santic-zombie.ru/videos/watch/461b6cba-d42d-4787-83c3-29975185fe3f

I made a study for a drawing I'm planning, another double portrait based on a scene from Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd Gig. Maybe you can guess which scene. The Japanese text provides a very oblique clue, if you can read my handwriting.

Next stage is to apply watercolour to it.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese
#kusameikyuu

I made a study for a drawing I'm planning, another double portrait based on a scene from Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd Gig. Maybe you can guess which scene. The Japanese text provides a very oblique clue, if you can read my handwriting.

Next stage is to apply watercolour to it.

#theStudio #theAtelier
#GitS #Japanese
#kusameikyuu

Want to take your Japanese skills to the next level? Ready to bust out from an intermediate grasp of the language into fluency? Here's how to use the Listening-Reading method to boost your comprehension.

https://unseen-japan.com/read-japanese-books-listening-reading/

#japan #unseenjapan #japanese #languages

Hina-Mincho is a #Japanese old-fashioned Minchō-style #font, created by Satsuyako.

🔗 https://github.com/satsuyako/Hina-Mincho

#LearningJapanese question:

I started reading Japanese books (and I much prefer physical books), and I'm wondering how people deal with finding kanji they don't yet know. Without knowing how they sound, I can't easily look them up - I use the Takoboto dictionary app, and this lets you manually write kanji, but with more complex ones that's very timeconsuming.

Ideally I'd like something that lets me point my phone camera at a kanji (or word containing one or more kanjis), and look it up that way.

I know I can use things like Google Translate with my phone camera, but that translates everything it sees, and I then have to dig around to find the original word/kanji I'm interested in.

Are there any (Android) apps I'm not aware of that would help with this, or any other tips? ありがとうございます！

#日本語 #日本語を勉強する
#Japanese

#Mazda quietly returns to Russian market despite 2022 exit

Mazda re-entered #Russian market despite #Japanese #automaker's formal suspension of operations after #Moscow's full-scale #invasion of #Ukraine

Findings raise concerns Mazda Motor Corporation continues to generate revenue in Russia after announcing its withdrawal in 2022 "due to the situation in Ukraine ,"

https://kyivindependent.com/mazda-quietly-returns-to-russian-market-despite-2022-exit/

#war #cars #RussianAggression #BoycottMazda

This cafe and kimono shop in Minato, Tokyo, spelling "Welcome" in kanji (有[u]恵[e]留[ru]可[ka]夢[mu]) is SENDING me

#japan #japanese #unseenjapan #languages

I know I'm a bit late for new year's resolution but maybe I can still motivate someone: This year, I'm learning japanese. Would anyone over here want to join me? Just for cheering each other on, sometimes trying to communicate in japanese, or maybe also going through a textbook together.

Or, maybe even a japanese speaker interested in learning German?

#japanese #japaneseLearning #LearnANewLanguage #tandem #languageTandem

"Most of us have, at some point, tried using The Gangrene Owl of Doom to learn a language. But Duolingo isn’t a standalone tool for language learning. At most, it can help you nail pronunciation, plus a few hundred words and basic phrases."

https://unseen-japan.com/learn-japanese-without-duolingo/

#japan #unseenjapan #languages #japanese #duolingo

I know I'm a bit late for new year's resolution but maybe I can still motivate someone: This year, I'm learning japanese. Would anyone over here want to join me? Just for cheering each other on, sometimes trying to communicate in japanese, or maybe also going through a textbook together.

Or, maybe even a japanese speaker interested in learning German?

#japanese #japaneseLearning #LearnANewLanguage #tandem #languageTandem

Today I learned that "exit poll" is the same in Japanese (出口調査). 😊

#衆院選 #LowerHouseElection #日本語 #Japanese #出口調査 #ExitPoll

Ichimei (#Japanese, active about 1850–1870 (?)), 金魚, Goldfish and Water Plants, around 1850, #Japan.

Ichimei (#Japanese, active about 1850–1870 (?)), 金魚, Goldfish and Water Plants, around 1850, #Japan.

Kanji: 堪

withstand, endure, support, resist

カン　タン
た.える　たま.る　こら.える　こた.える

堪能 (かんのう) — proficient
堪える (こたえる) — to bear
堪忍袋 (かんにんぶくろ) — one's store of patience
堪らない (たまらない) — intolerable
堪えられない (こたえられない) — really good
堪えない (たえない) — unable to suppress one's emotions
堪え性 (こらえしょう) — endurance
堪忍 (かんにん) — patience
堪え忍ぶ (たえしのぶ) — to put up with
居た堪れない (いたたまれない) — unable to stay (on)

✍ 12
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Just published a new version of kanash !

This version introduces the use of Ratzilla and leverages WebGL2. (big thanks to junkdog and @orhun )

src: https://github.com/benoitlx/kanash
link: https://kana.rezoleo.fr
ratzilla: https://github.com/ratatui/ratzilla

It needs a bit more polish, but here's what it looks like:

#ratatui #terminal #katakana #japanese

While eavesdropping on Japanese language study material that someone else in the household is playing, I keep hearing word-initial [ts] (or something similar, but definitely an affricate) instead of word-initial [s] (which I have been assured is the correct pronunciation).

Is there a process in Japanese which causes word-initial [s] to resemble [ts] after a glottal stop at a word boundary, before a voiceless vowel, or in some other environment?

#phonology #linguistics #japanese

While eavesdropping on Japanese language study material that someone else in the household is playing, I keep hearing word-initial [ts] (or something similar, but definitely an affricate) instead of word-initial [s] (which I have been assured is the correct pronunciation).

Is there a process in Japanese which causes word-initial [s] to resemble [ts] after a glottal stop at a word boundary, before a voiceless vowel, or in some other environment?

#phonology #linguistics #japanese

Kawase Hasui (#KawaseHasui)（川瀬 巴水 #Japanese,1883-1957), 越後 小千谷 Echigo Ojiya, 1941.
#shinhanga

Kawase Hasui (#KawaseHasui)（川瀬 巴水 #Japanese,1883-1957), 越後 小千谷 Echigo Ojiya, 1941.
#shinhanga

Kanji: 玉

jewel, ball

ギョク
たま　たま-　-だま

埼玉 (さいたま) — Saitama (city, prefecture)
埼玉県 (さいたまけん) — Saitama Prefecture (Kanto area)
目玉 (めだま) — eyeball
玉ねぎ (たまねぎ) — onion (Allium cepa)
玉子 (たまご) — egg
大玉 (おおだま) — large ball
玉砕 (ぎょくさい) — honorable death
目玉焼き (めだまやき) — fried egg
珠玉 (しゅぎょく) — jewel
毛玉 (けだま) — pilling

✍ 5
🏫 小1

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 験

verification, effect, testing

ケン　ゲン
あかし　しるし　ため.す　ためし

経験 (けいけん) — experience
体験 (たいけん) — experience
試験 (しけん) — examination
験し (ためし) — trial
受験 (じゅけん) — taking an examination (esp. for entrance to a school or university)
実験 (じっけん) — experiment
受験生 (じゅけんせい) — student preparing for or taking examinations (usu. entrance exams)
経験者 (けいけんしゃ) — experienced person
核実験 (かくじっけん) — nuclear (bomb) test
験する (けんする) — to try (out)

✍ 18
🏫 小4

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 竜

dragon, imperial

リュウ　リョウ　ロウ
たつ　いせ

恐竜 (きょうりゅう) — dinosaur
竜王 (りゅうおう) — Dragon King
竜馬 (りゅうめ) — splendid horse
竜巻 (たつまき) — tornado
登竜門 (とうりゅうもん) — gateway to success
飛竜 (ひりゅう) — flying dragon
竜宮 (りゅうぐう) — Palace of the Dragon King
竜虎 (りゅうこ) — dragon and tiger
竜神 (りゅうじん) — dragon god
白竜 (はくりゅう) — white dragon

✍ 10
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 徒

on foot, junior, emptiness, vanity, futility, uselessness, ephemeral thing, gang, set, party, people

ト
いたずら　あだ

生徒 (せいと) — pupil
徒歩 (かち) — foot soldier (Edo period)
生徒会 (せいとかい) — student council
生徒数 (せいとすう) — number of pupils
イスラム教徒 (イスラムきょうと) — Muslim
信徒 (しんと) — layman
生徒指導 (せいとしどう) — student guidance
使徒 (しと) — apostle
学徒 (がくと) — student
教徒 (きょうと) — believer

✍ 10
🏫 小4

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 官

bureaucrat, the government, organ

カン

次官 (じかん) — vice-minister
官房長官 (かんぼうちょうかん) — Chief Cabinet Secretary (Japan)
官房長官 (かんぼうちょうかん) — Chief Cabinet Secretary (Japan)
官僚 (かんりょう) — bureaucrat
裁判官 (さいばんかん) — judge
首相官邸 (しゅしょうかんてい) — prime minister's official residence
警察官 (けいさつかん) — police officer
報道官 (ほうどうかん) — press officer
国務長官 (こくむちょうかん) — Secretary of State
政務官 (せいむかん) — parliamentary official

✍ 8
🏫 小4

#kanji #japanese

Daikon and I will be #streaming #HappyHour tonight from 9PM UTC+9! The show is a #Japanese and English bilingual stream introducing some cool #IndieGames we found. Come hang out and find new stuff to play!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LkITQfvOn4

Japanese Wedding April, 1959.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)

Title: Toni Frissell's Sports Illustrated Wedding Photos

Date: August-September-October 1959

Keywords: Toni Frissell, Sports Illustrated, Chiharu Igaya, Japan, Tokyo

Description: This collection of photographs by Toni Frissell features the wedding ceremony of Japanese skier Chiharu Igaya in Tokyo, Japan. The images were taken for Sports Illustrated magazine and consist of black and white and color prints.

Biography: Chiharu Igaya (1919-2007) was a renowned Japanese speed skater who won numerous international titles, including two Olympic medals.

The photographs are attributed to Toni Frissell, an American photographer known for her work in sports journalism.

#Japanese #ToniFrissells #ToniFrissell #SportsIllustrated #ChiharuIgaya #Japan #TokyoDescription #Tokyo #American #japan #tokyo #photography

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021718807/

Kanji: 阻

thwart, separate from, prevent, obstruct, deter, impede

ソ
はば.む

阻止 (そし) — obstruction
阻害 (そがい) — obstruction
悪阻 (おそ) — morning sickness
阻む (はばむ) — to keep someone from doing
成長を阻む (せいちょうをはばむ) — to hinder the growth of (e.g., plants, someone)
意気阻喪 (いきそそう) — depressed in spirits
道を阻む (みちをはばむ) — to obstruct one's way
阻喪 (そそう) — loss of spirit
険阻 (けんそ) — steep (terrain)
阻隔 (そかく) — separation

✍ 8
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Books... wrapped?
These are all the books in Japanese I read in 2025 (or tried to read). I compiled from my Airtable database so the infographics are a little plain. I think there's a couple I forgot, but those were probably ones that I quit reading midway through.

#FamichikiReads #Japanese #manga

OKUMURA Koichi（奥村厚一 #Japanese,1904-1974） Heian Shrine 平安神宮 1948 #woodblockprint.

OKUMURA Koichi（奥村厚一 #Japanese,1904-1974） Heian Shrine 平安神宮 1948 #woodblockprint.

Kanji: 情

feelings, emotion, passion, sympathy, circumstances, facts

ジョウ　セイ
なさ.け

情報 (じょうほう) — information
表情 (ひょうじょう) — facial expression
事情 (じじょう) — circumstances
感情 (かんじょう) — emotion
最新情報 (さいしんじょうほう) — the latest information
愛情 (あいじょう) — love
関連情報 (かんれんじょうほう) — related information
情勢 (じょうせい) — state of things
個人情報 (こじんじょうほう) — personal information
事情聴取 (じじょうちょうしゅ) — inquiry

✍ 11
🏫 小5

#kanji #japanese

From a podcast "#Japan has one of the longest lived and healthiest populations in the world, and let #Japanese startups are playing a relatively small role in the recent #longevity-#tech boom."

Could it be because tech has nothing to do with longevity in Japan? That it's actually lifestyles, healthcare, & traditional diets that matter?

Couldn't that be the lesson here?

Keeping in mind that I'm chronically ill and have very little brain juice for learning new things, so I need something easily digestible that I can absorb in tiny bits and at my own pace:

Anyone have any good recommendations for ways to learn Japanese casually, online/remotely?

(That aren't Duolingo, of course)

#AskFedi #Japanese

I'm looking for good resources to learn about the radicals in #Japanese kanji. I.e., not whole kanji, but rather the component parts.

I don't want to memorize kanji. I don't want silly mnemonic devices. I don't want to look up kanji by radicals. I want to learn about the history, function, sound & evolution of radicals.

Can anyone recommend books, websites, apps, anything?

I know they exist but they're hard to find via search engines.

Thank you for recommendations. 1/2

#Bookstodon

Does anyone know how to add #Japanese language input in #LineageOS? I don't see any icon that would indicate a way to switch language input.

Kanji: 重

heavy, important, esteem, respect, heap up, pile up, nest of boxes, -fold

ジュウ　チョウ
え　おも.い　おも.り　おも.なう　かさ.ねる　かさ.なる　おも

重要 (じゅうよう) — important
三重 (さんじゅう) — triple
体重 (たいじゅう) — weight
重視 (じゅうし) — regarding as important
重い (おもい) — heavy
貴重 (きちょう) — precious
慎重 (しんちょう) — careful
重ね着 (かさねぎ) — layering (clothing)
重ね (かさね) — pile
重さ (おもさ) — weight

✍ 9
🏫 小3

#kanji #japanese

I see various #JavaScript and #Dart libraries offering functions for detecting #Japanese kanji characters, but they almost always do this in a limited way that misses a huge number of characters, i.e. nothing beyond the #Unicode BMP, or even missing ranges in the BMP.

The only way to do this right is to

1. Work with codepoints, not UTF-16 code units

2. Look at the Unicode script property, which should be `Han` for kanji/hanzi

I used the new Unicode script matchers in Orgro (https://orgro.org/) to improve text reflow for Japanese and Chinese text.

Previously all text would reflow like the Latin text above—with a space where line breaks were. Now I remove the space when appropriate based on the script of the abutting non-whitespace characters.

#Orgro #Emacs #OrgMode #Unicode #Japanese #Chinese

I used the new Unicode script matchers in Orgro (https://orgro.org/) to improve text reflow for Japanese and Chinese text.

Previously all text would reflow like the Latin text above—with a space where line breaks were. Now I remove the space when appropriate based on the script of the abutting non-whitespace characters.

#Orgro #Emacs #OrgMode #Unicode #Japanese #Chinese

I see various #JavaScript and #Dart libraries offering functions for detecting #Japanese kanji characters, but they almost always do this in a limited way that misses a huge number of characters, i.e. nothing beyond the #Unicode BMP, or even missing ranges in the BMP.

The only way to do this right is to

1. Work with codepoints, not UTF-16 code units

2. Look at the Unicode script property, which should be `Han` for kanji/hanzi

Kanji: 凶

villain, evil, bad luck, disaster

キョウ

凶悪 (きょうあく) — atrocious
凶器 (きょうき) — dangerous weapon
凶暴 (きょうぼう) — ferocious
元凶 (げんきょう) — ringleader
凶悪犯罪 (きょうあくはんざい) — atrocious crime
凶行 (きょうこう) — violence
吉凶 (きっきょう) — good or bad luck
豊凶 (ほうきょう) — rich or poor harvest
凶弾 (きょうだん) — assassin's bullet
凶作 (きょうさく) — bad harvest

✍ 4
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 般

carrier, carry, all, general, sort, kind

ハン

一般 (いっぱん) — general
一般的 (いっぱんてき) — general
一般に (いっぱんに) — generally
全般 (ぜんぱん) — whole
一般公開 (いっぱんこうかい) — opening to the public (e.g., garden, etc.)
一般会計 (いっぱんかいけい) — general accounting and finance
一般教書 (いっぱんきょうしょ) — State of the Union message
一般人 (いっぱんじん) — ordinary person
一般論 (いっぱんろん) — prevailing view
全般に (ぜんぱんに) — in general

✍ 10
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 俺

I, myself

エン
おれ　われ

俺たち (おれたち) — we
俺様 (おれさま) — I
俺達 (おれたち) — we
俺ら (うら) — I
満俺 (マンガン) — manganese (Mn) (ger: Mangan)
俺等達 (おいらっち) — we
俺っち (おれっち) — we

✍ 10
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

日本語漢字変換のAnthyは、いろいろあってDebianとFedoraで別々にフォークしてメンテされているのだけど、それを再統合しようとしている人がいるそう。Linuxの日本語漢字変換がMozcに依存している状況は良くないので、なんとか別の道も探りたいところ #linux #japanese #anthy #mozc

netsphere-labs/anthy: Anthy is a kana-kanji conversion engine for Japanese. It converts roma-ji to kana, and the kana text to a mixed kana and kanji. Merge Debian https://salsa.debian.org/debian/anthy/ and Fedora anthy-unicode https://github.com/fujiwarat/anthy-unicode/: https://github.com/netsphere-labs/anthy

Only two weeks left until my #Japanese test (#JLPT N4)! Found a great source for practice tests at https://bunpro.jp/jlpt_practice_tests.

They are freely accessible without a login; are really high-quality; and have detailed feedback on *why* the false answers are wrong.

I think my biggest risk of failing the test is not getting enough points in the Listening section, so I'll focus on practicing these a lot!

誰かが勝手に完璧なLibreOfficeの日本語環境を作ってくれればいいですよね。知らんけど #libreoffice #japanese

英語フォントは公開されているけど日本語フォントは、どうしようかな。MS Officeのデフォルトは遊明朝と遊ゴシックがデフォルトだから置き換えようがないんだよな。Noto Sans JPとNoto Serif JPがインストールされるようになったから、Officeもそれには合わせてくれればいいけど

ちなみに日本語のフォールバックの順番は、Noto Serif CJK JP, Noto Serif JPの優先度がを一番高くしているのでインストールされていればデフォルトで使われます #libreoffice #japanese

「Microsoft 365」（Office）と「LibreOffice」でフォントが違う問題、AIで緩和へ - 窓の杜: https://forest.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2063923.html

誰かが勝手に完璧なLibreOfficeの日本語環境を作ってくれればいいですよね。知らんけど #libreoffice #japanese

英語フォントは公開されているけど日本語フォントは、どうしようかな。MS Officeのデフォルトは遊明朝と遊ゴシックがデフォルトだから置き換えようがないんだよな。Noto Sans JPとNoto Serif JPがインストールされるようになったから、Officeもそれには合わせてくれればいいけど

ちなみに日本語のフォールバックの順番は、Noto Serif CJK JP, Noto Serif JPの優先度がを一番高くしているのでインストールされていればデフォルトで使われます #libreoffice #japanese

「Microsoft 365」（Office）と「LibreOffice」でフォントが違う問題、AIで緩和へ - 窓の杜: https://forest.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2063923.html

Kanji: 誰

who, someone, somebody

スイ
だれ　たれ　た

誰も (だれも) — everyone
誰か (だれか) — someone
誰でも (だれでも) — anyone
誰にも (だれにも) — to anyone
誰にでも (だれにでも) — anyone
誰だって (だれだって) — anyone
誰しも (たれしも) — everyone
誰一人として (だれひとりとして) — a single person
誰々 (だれだれ) — so-and-so
誰彼 (たれかれ) — this or that person

✍ 15
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 郷

home town, village, native place, district

キョウ　ゴウ
さと

故郷 (こきょう) — hometown
郷土 (きょうど) — native place
郷土料理 (きょうどりょうり) — regional cuisine
帰郷 (ききょう) — homecoming
郷里 (きょうり) — hometown
郷土史 (きょうどし) — local history
郷愁 (きょうしゅう) — nostalgia
郷村 (ごうそん) — villages
温泉郷 (おんせんきょう) — hot-spring village
同郷 (どうきょう) — same village

✍ 11
🏫 小6

#kanji #japanese

6 weeks to go until my #Japanese test (#JLPT N4)!

I try to practice every day! For motivation, I made this big chart where I can tick off five boxes per day:

1. Vocabulary (using Anki, a Core 2K deck)
2. Grammar (using the TRY! grammar book + Anki)
3. Listening comprehension (wild mix, often "Comprehensible Japanese" or the Benjiro interviews on YT)
4. Reading (Yotsuba! or Flying Witch mangas; tadoku.org books)
5. Drilling (going through old JLPT tests)

This way, I often put in 1-1.5 h/day.

Line breaks within a paragraph are treated as spaces in Markdown. However, this gives bad results in East Asian languages, where spaces between words are unusual. Use

pandoc -f markdown+east_asian_line_breaks

to ensure that line breaks between East Asian wide characters get ignored.

The extension also works with #CommonMark (commonmark), GitHub Flavored Markdown (gfm), and pandoc's CommonMark extension (commonmark_x).

#pandoc #Markdown #Japanese #Korean #Chinese

Kanji: 履

perform, complete, footgear, shoes, boots, put on (the feet)

リ
は.く

履歴 (りれき) — personal history
履行 (りこう) — performance (of a duty)
履歴書 (りれきしょ) — personal history
履修 (りしゅう) — taking (a class)
履く (はく) — to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g., pants, skirt, footwear)
草履 (じょうり) — zori
債務不履行 (さいむふりこう) — default on a debt
履物 (はきもの) — footwear
不履行 (ふりこう) — default
上履き (うわばき) — hallway slippers

✍ 15
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Decided to combine two Inktober 2025 days ORNATE and DEAL.

#PixelArt #pixel #pixelfed #indiedev #indie #indiegame #autumn #fall #harvest #fanart #drawing #fanart #fantasy #украрт #art #drawing #artwork #ドット絵トークン #halloween #game #games #illustration #inktober #inktober2025 #halloween #halloween2025 #fall #asset #digitalart #digital #harvest #fall #autumn #forest #grass #moss #mosstodon #rock #rocks #stone #path #china #japan #japanese #southkorea #asia

Kanji: 袖

sleeve, wing (building), extension, give cold shoulder

シュウ
そで

振袖 (ふりそで) — long-sleeved kimono
振り袖 (ふりそで) — long-sleeved kimono
半袖 (はんそで) — short sleeves
領袖 (りょうしゅう) — leader
長袖 (ながそで) — long sleeves
袖口 (そでぐち) — cuff
袖丈 (そでたけ) — length of a sleeve (of Western clothing)
袖を通す (そでをとおす) — to put on (clothing)
小袖 (こそで) — short sleeved kimono (worn as an undergarment during the Heian period)
七分袖 (しちぶそで) — three-quarter sleeves

✍ 10
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 勉

exertion, endeavour, encourage, strive, make effort, diligent

ベン
つと.める

勉強 (べんきょう) — study
勉強会 (べんきょうかい) — study group
勉学 (べんがく) — study
勤勉 (きんべん) — diligent
勉強中 (べんきょうちゅう) — while studying
猛勉強 (もうべんきょう) — studying very hard
勉強不足 (べんきょうぶそく) — insufficient study
勉強時間 (べんきょうじかん) — one's study hours (time)
試験勉強 (しけんべんきょう) — studying for a test
勉強机 (べんきょうづくえ) — desk

✍ 10
🏫 小3

#kanji #japanese

Stereotypes of Japan as a land of vague meaning and blunted expression are just straight-up Orientalism and obscure a complex reality. Here's why blanket statements about Japanese being a "subtle language" need to be taken with a grain of salt.

https://unseen-japan.com/the-myth-of-japanese-indirectness-and-subtlety/

#japan #unseenjapan #japanese

The December run of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) is fast approaching. Which raises the question: Should you cram for it? Here are our recommendations for how to prepare as the days count down.

https://unseen-japan.com/cram-for-the-jlpt/

#japan #unseenjapan #japanese

Kanji: 尺

shaku, Japanese foot, measure, scale, rule

シャク　セキ
さし

尺八 (しゃくはち) — shakuhachi
尺度 (しゃくど) — gauge
縮尺 (しゅくしゃく) — reduced scale
長尺 (ちょうしゃく) — long (esp. of photographic film)
六尺 (ろくしゃく) — six feet
三尺 (さんじゃく) — 3 Japanese feet
一尺 (いっしゃく) — approx. 30 cm
巻き尺 (まきじゃく) — tape measure
尺貫法 (しゃっかんほう) — old Japanese system of weights and measures
尺取り虫 (しゃくとりむし) — inchworm

✍ 4
🏫 小6

#kanji #japanese

Urusai.social is a friendly and non-toxic Glitch Mastodon server for anime, manga, and other otaku subjects. It includes lots of extra features including extended posts, emoji reactions, additional themes, hover-zoom for emoji etc.

This server has a post size of up to 800 characters.

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Urusai.social is a friendly and non-toxic Glitch Mastodon server for anime, manga, and other otaku subjects. It includes lots of extra features including extended posts, emoji reactions, additional themes, hover-zoom for emoji etc.

This server has a post size of up to 800 characters.

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You can find out more at https://urusai.social/about or contact the admin @neatchee

#FeaturedServer #Anime #Manga #Otaku #Japanese #Japan #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

As far as anyone can tell, "pien" as a word came into fashion among the JC (女子中学生; joshichuugakusei, middle schoolers) and JK (女子高校生; joshikoukousei, high schoolers) set around 2018. It took off in popularity around that time.

https://unseen-japan.com/pien-japanese-meaning-history-fashion/

#japan #unseenjapan #japanese

Today in Japan, "mama" and "papa" for one's parents are now commonplace. But they were once so controversial that one legislator sought to have them banned. Here's the story of how Japan's native words lost out to their English counterparts.

https://unseen-japan.com/mama-papa-how-the-japanese-words-for-parents-lost-out-to-english/

#japan #unseenjapan #japanese

There's a pervasive myth that the Japanese language lacks swear words. It's true that Japanese doesn't have a codified list of socially egregious expletives à la English. Yet there does, in fact, exist a level of words beyond mere rudeness.

https://unseen-japan.com/kotobagari-japans-hunt-for-taboo-words/

#japan #unseenjapan #japanese

Same-sex partners recognized under more laws in Japan

The government has decided to allow same-sex couples to be treated as being in de facto marriages under a total of nine more laws and ordinances, including the disaster condolence grant law, it was learned Tuesday. The decision follows a Supreme Court ruling in M…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #Japanese #Japanesecourts #Japanesenews #LGBTQ #news #same-sexmarriage
https://www.alojapan.com/1381871/same-sex-partners-recognized-under-more-laws-in-japan/

Dietary requirements. Personal tastes. General uncertainty. Restaurants can be a minefield of problems for some, especially when abroad. Here are some Japanese phrases and words you can use to navigate the experience on your next trip.

https://unseen-japan.com/dining-out-in-japan-useful-japanese/

#japan #unseenjapan #travel #japanese #food

Kanji: 棄

abandon, throw away, discard, resign, reject, sacrifice

キ
す.てる

放棄 (ほうき) — abandonment
棄却 (ききゃく) — rejection
廃棄 (はいき) — disposal
遺棄 (いき) — abandonment
棄権 (きけん) — abstention (from voting)
廃棄物 (はいきぶつ) — waste matter
死体遺棄 (したいいき) — abandonment of a corpse
破棄 (はき) — tearing up and discarding (e.g., documents)
不法投棄 (ふほうとうき) — unlawful dumping (e.g., of garbage)
債権放棄 (さいけんほうき) — debt forgiveness

✍ 13
🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Need more Japanese reading practice? Trying to understand newspaper-level Japanese? For the most part, it requires a lot of immersive reading. But there are some tools you can use to help give you a leg up.

https://unseen-japan.com/japanese-reading-practice-newspapers/

#japan #unseenjapan #japanese

I signed up for a Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT N4) in December! It's been a good motivation to put more time into learning vocabulary and grammar!

I found a neat resource to practice reading: Tadoku, a collection of ~100 free picture books of varying difficulty, released under Creative Commons licenses (BY-NC-ND), some with audio!

Especially the lower-level books are really motivating, because I can actually read them without a dictionary!

https://tadoku.org/japanese/en/free-books-en/

#jlpt #japanese

Kanji: 無

nothingness, none, ain't, nothing, nil, not

ム　ブ
な.い

無理 (むり) — unreasonable
無料 (むりょう) — free (of charge)
無い (ない) — nonexistent
無いと (ないと) — have to (verb)
無駄 (むだ) — futility
無視 (むし) — disregarding
無職 (むしょく) — without an occupation
無所属 (むしょぞく) — independent (esp. in politics)
無党派層 (むとうはそう) — unaffiliated voters
無償 (むしょう) — without compensation

✍ 12
🏫 小4

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 比

compare, race, ratio, Philippines

ヒ
くら.べる

比例 (ひれい) — proportion
に比べ (にくらべ) — compared to
比較 (ひかく) — comparison
比べ (くらべ) — contest
比較的 (ひかくてき) — comparatively
比べる (くらべる) — to compare
前年比 (ぜんねんひ) — year on year
比率 (ひりつ) — ratio
と比べて (とくらべて) — compared with
日比 (にちひ) — Japan and the Philippines

✍ 4
🏫 小5

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 皇

emperor

コウ　オウ

天皇 (すべらぎ) — Emperor of Japan
皇后 (こうごう) — empress
皇太子 (こうたいし) — crown prince
天皇陛下 (てんのうへいか) — His Majesty the Emperor
皇居 (こうきょ) — Imperial Palace (of Japan)
天皇杯 (てんのうはい) — Emperor's trophy
皇室 (こうしつ) — Imperial household
皇帝 (おうだい) — emperor
皇族 (こうぞく) — imperial family
皇子 (おうじ) — imperial prince

✍ 9
🏫 小6

#kanji #japanese

Breaking my social media silence to look for a #transgender #Japanese-to-English #translator who would be interested in #translating a rather famous #manga featuring transgender characters. I will help, but N1 or an equivalent level in #Japanese is a must. Writing experience is a big plus. Preference will be given to #Black, #Brown, or #Indigenous translators. Please send me a private message if you are interested or have questions. #BIPOC #translation

Breaking my social media silence to look for a #transgender #Japanese-to-English #translator who would be interested in #translating a rather famous #manga featuring transgender characters. I will help, but N1 or an equivalent level in #Japanese is a must. Writing experience is a big plus. Preference will be given to #Black, #Brown, or #Indigenous translators. Please send me a private message if you are interested or have questions. #BIPOC #translation

Most languages use a variation of the name Japan. The exception? Japan! Learn how the country's own modern name evolved, the etymology of "Japan," and the reason for the difference.

https://unseen-japan.com/etymology-of-japan/

#japan #unseenjapan #history #languages #Japanese

Kanji: 激

violent, get excited, enraged, chafe, incite

ゲキ
はげ.しい

激しい (はげしい) — violent
刺激 (しげき) — stimulus
激励 (げきれい) — encouragement
急激 (きゅうげき) — sudden
感激 (かんげき) — deep emotion
激減 (げきげん) — dramatic decrease
激突 (げきとつ) — crash
激戦 (げきせん) — fierce battle
激化 (げきか) — intensification
過激 (かげき) — extreme

✍ 16
🏫 小6

#kanji #japanese

#Japanese #buddhist painting.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism

#Japanese #buddhist painting.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism

Kanji: 穴

hole, aperture, slit, cave, den

ケツ
あな

毛穴 (けあな) — pore (of the skin)
穴埋め (あなうめ) — filling (up) a hole
落とし穴 (おとしあな) — pitfall
穴場 (あなば) — good place not many people know about
風穴 (かざあな) — air hole
大穴 (おおあな) — large hole
穴馬 (あなうま) — dark horse (candidate)
穴を開ける (あなをあける) — to cause a loss
鼻の穴 (はなのあな) — nostril
穴子 (あなご) — conger eel (esp. the common Japanese conger, Conger myriaster)

✍ 5
🏫 小6

#kanji #japanese

Okinawa’s Bin, written as “保栄茂,” has been the subject of multiple articles and linguistic studies. This set of kanji would more commonly be read as “Hoeishige” or “Hoemo,” but is instead read “Bin,” pronounced like the Japanese word for “bottle.”

https://unseen-japan.com/hardest-japanese-place-names/

#japan #unseenjapan #japanese

Kanji: 乗

ride, power, multiplication, record, counter for vehicles, board, mount, join

ジョウ　ショウ
の.る　-の.り　の.せる

乗り (のり) — riding
乗客 (じょうかく) — passenger
乗る (のる) — to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.)
乗用車 (じょうようしゃ) — car
上乗せ (うわのせ) — adding (an extra amount)
名乗り (なのり) — giving one's name
乗り換え (のりかえ) — transfer (trains, buses, etc.)
搭乗 (とうじょう) — embarkation
乗組員 (のりくみいん) — crew (of a ship, airplane, etc.)
乗車 (じょうしゃ) — boarding (a train, bus, etc.)

✍ 9
🏫 小3

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 引

pull, tug, jerk, admit, install, quote, refer to

イン
ひ.く　ひ.ける

引き (ひき) — pull
取引 (とりひき) — transactions
引退 (いんたい) — retirement
引き続き (ひきつづき) — continuously
引き上げ (ひきあげ) — pulling up
引っ越し (ひっこし) — moving (dwelling, office, etc.)
引き出し (ひきだし) — drawer
引き締め (ひきしめ) — tightening
引き下げ (ひきさげ) — reduction
割引 (わりびき) — discount

✍ 4
🏫 小2

#kanji #japanese

Can you read 保栄茂 ? If not, don't feel bad: many native speakers can't either! Here are some of the most difficult-to-read Japanese place names from around the country based on various polls.

https://unseen-japan.com/hardest-japanese-place-names/

#japan #unseenjapan #japanese

#Bodhidharma, #Japanese #kakemono.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism

#Bodhidharma, #Japanese #kakemono.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism

Kigyoku Picture Album (Kigyoku gafu 其玉画譜), After Seizei Kigyoku 其玉 (#Japanese, 1732-1756), #Tōkyō: Kobayashi Bunshichi 小林文七, 1901.

Kigyoku Picture Album (Kigyoku gafu 其玉画譜), After Seizei Kigyoku 其玉 (#Japanese, 1732-1756), #Tōkyō: Kobayashi Bunshichi 小林文七, 1901.

I finished 白鳥とコウモリ by Keigo Higashino (東野圭吾). I found the story and the plot truly excellent… but I also found this novel extremely repetitive, the same facts are repeated over and over again, and each chapter feels like a recap of the previous ones. Maybe it’s because the book was first serialised… but even then it does feel too repetitive imho.

There are two or three other things that bugged me, and overall I find that the characters are lacking personality, but I still enjoyed reading it as I’ve enjoyed all the Higashino books I’ve read so far!
🦢🦇

(I covered words that give away elements of the plot)

#Japanese #bookstodon

Oh, wow, Japanese is officially going with Hepburn-style romanization

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/21/japan/panel-hepburn-style-romanization/

#japan #japanese #english #languages #linguistics

Oh, wow, Japanese is officially going with Hepburn-style romanization

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/21/japan/panel-hepburn-style-romanization/

#japan #japanese #english #languages #linguistics

こっちは止まっているっぽい #linux #japanese #ime

最近またLinux用の日本語IMEを作っている - tokuhirom's blog: https://blog.64p.org/entry/2023/01/16/032912

My husband wanted to read Keigo Higashino’s recent novel, 白鳥とコウモリ, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to do a buddy read.

It’s been so long since I read Higashino!!

So here they are, the Korean translation (by 양윤옥) for him and my two Japanese bunko. Both versions have stunning covers, but mine are more portable hehe

#JapaneseLiterature #Japanese #Korean

#Wayland input methods.

I'm sorry to say #iced doesn't have enough people with review/merge rights, so my work making #Chinese and #Japanese #input good on Wayland is going nowhere.

What are other #Rust #GUI libraries I could contribute to instead?

#cjk #opensource #nlnet

Husband: do you know what 사라다 means?

I didn’t know, but it sounded like a verb. A flow of unrelated verbs start popping into my head: 사다, 살다, 살리다, 사라지다…

Husband: it comes from Japanese.

さらだ? All of a sudden, this word sounded more like a loanword than a verb! サラダ = salada (from Portuguese).

So in Korean there are two words: 샐러드 is the general word for “salad” and 사라다 refers to “Japanese style salad” with fruits, vegetables, nuts and mayonnaise.

#Japanese #Korean #LanguageLearning

How did the names of colors evolve in Japanese? Turns out there are no black and white answers to that question. Here's a look at the interesting evolution of color vocabulary in the Japanese language.

https://unseen-japan.com/japanese-colors-history/

#japan #unseenjapan #ujwebsite #japanese

Kigyoku Picture Album (Kigyoku gafu 其玉画譜), After Seizei Kigyoku 其玉 (#Japanese, 1732-1756), #Tōkyō: Kobayashi Bunshichi 小林文七, 1901.

Kigyoku Picture Album (Kigyoku gafu 其玉画譜), After Seizei Kigyoku 其玉 (#Japanese, 1732-1756), #Tōkyō: Kobayashi Bunshichi 小林文七, 1901.

I wrote a new blog post, about Li Kotomi's "The Island where the Red Spider Lilies Bloom" (higanbana ga saku shima, 彼岸花が咲く島 ).

It's mostly about the different variants of Japanese used in the novel, and also about the many trees and flowers; and about Utopia.

#JapaneseLiterature #Japanese

https://quickandtastycooking.org.uk/articles/higanbana/

Today I was called 二货 ("erhuo"), which means "fool" and which I realised sounds very similar to the #Japanese word 安保/アホ ("aho").

So I assumed that must mean アホ comes from 二货, right?
But no, turns out アホ comes from Classical Chinese, and 二货 is modern Chinese slang.
So then that must mean 二货 comes from Japanese instead?

But that doesn't appear to be the case either.. So are they just similar in meaning and pronunciation by random?

Help me!

#Chinese #LanguageLearning

#NowReading2025 VIRTUAL JAPANESE: ENIGMA OF ROLE LANGUAGE by Iwanami Shoten translated by Satoshi Kinsui via Osaka University Press via Nippori Library imbibed at Key Coffee #Senjuohashi #千住大 #BookStodon #BookMastodon #LangStodon #Language #Japanese #JapaneseBooks #LingSky #Linguistics
@bookstodon

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in #Seoul, #Korea, and an avid advocate of #FLOSS and the #fediverse.

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

The surge in anti-immigrant sentiment in Japan has led to increasing online attacks against award-winning author Yu Miri (TOKYO UENO STATION). Attackers tell her not to write in Japanese and "go home."

Yu is Zainichi Korean, born in Japan. Japanese is her native language.

#japan #unseenjapan #japanese #writing #fiction #racism

The surge in anti-immigrant sentiment in Japan has led to increasing online attacks against award-winning author Yu Miri (TOKYO UENO STATION). Attackers tell her not to write in Japanese and "go home."

Yu is Zainichi Korean, born in Japan. Japanese is her native language.

#japan #unseenjapan #japanese #writing #fiction #racism

Kanji: 悪

bad, vice, rascal, false, evil, wrong

アク　オ
わる.い　わる-　あ.し　にく.い　-にく.い　ああ　いずくに　いずくんぞ　にく.む

悪い (にくい) — hateful
悪化 (あっか) — deterioration
最悪 (さいあく) — worst
悪魔 (あくま) — devil
悪口 (あっこう) — slander
意地悪 (いじわる) — malicious
悪さ (わるさ) — badness
悪質 (あくしつ) — malicious
悪影響 (あくえいきょう) — bad influence
気持ち悪い (きもちわるい) — unpleasant

✍ 11
🏫 小3

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 悪

bad, vice, rascal, false, evil, wrong

アク　オ
わる.い　わる-　あ.し　にく.い　-にく.い　ああ　いずくに　いずくんぞ　にく.む

悪い (にくい) — hateful
悪化 (あっか) — deterioration
最悪 (さいあく) — worst
悪魔 (あくま) — devil
悪口 (あっこう) — slander
意地悪 (いじわる) — malicious
悪さ (わるさ) — badness
悪質 (あくしつ) — malicious
悪影響 (あくえいきょう) — bad influence
気持ち悪い (きもちわるい) — unpleasant

✍ 11
🏫 小3

#kanji #japanese

IZU Kenro（井津建郎 #Japanese/American, b.1949） Still Life 1045 2016 Platinnum-Palladium print.

IZU Kenro（井津建郎 #Japanese/American, b.1949） Still Life 1045 2016 Platinnum-Palladium print.

im-configはシェルスクリプトなので、そんなに難しくないよー。検証がちょっと大変だけ(これが時間かかるんですよ…🥲)

#debian #kde #fcitx5 #japanese #wayland #linux

Debian TrixieのKDE Plasma 6とWayland環境でfcitx5を使うとき、im-configが適切な環境変数を設定してくれないのでバグ報告してたけど逆に「見てみてー」と言われました。が、しかし。自分には時間がないので誰か手伝ってー。見てみて欲しいです…😰

\#1099858 - im-config: Fctix5 environment variable is not set correctly in KDE Plasma 6 Wayland - Debian Bug report logs: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1099858

#debian #kde #fcitx5 #japanese #wayland #linux

Academic life goes on: something edifying and deeply appreciated; introducing Central Asian and other English language teachers to the field of bilingualism.

"An English-Japanese Bilingual Perspective on Foreign Language Teaching"
Slideshow at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/392631298
or https://www.academia.edu/129926751
and Zoom video recording with over 400 views already:
https://www.facebook.com/shalala.mammadli/videos/711952328465395

#bilingualism #bilingual #English #Japanese #Azerbaijan #Baku #Turkey #language #teaching

@linguistics

Academic life goes on: something edifying and deeply appreciated; introducing Central Asian and other English language teachers to the field of bilingualism.

"An English-Japanese Bilingual Perspective on Foreign Language Teaching"
Slideshow at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/392631298
or https://www.academia.edu/129926751
and Zoom video recording with over 400 views already:
https://www.facebook.com/shalala.mammadli/videos/711952328465395

#bilingualism #bilingual #English #Japanese #Azerbaijan #Baku #Turkey #language #teaching

@linguistics

Urusai.social is a friendly and non-toxic Glitch Mastodon server for anime, manga, and other otaku topics. It lets you write posts up 800 characters long and has many special features such as emoji reactions, additional themes, hover-zoom for emoji etc.

https://urusai.social

You can find out more at https://urusai.social/about or contact the admin @neatchee

#FeaturedServer #Anime #Manga #Otaku #Japan #Japanese #Glitch #Mastodon #GlitchMastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

So I am learning Japanese.

Where I can find a space to practice speaking Japanese with native people or learners like myself. Would love to connect with people in the community.

I don't want to use shitcord (discord) or any other platform that disrespects users privacy.

#languagelearning #fedihelp #japanese

So I am learning Japanese.

Where I can find a space to practice speaking Japanese with native people or learners like myself. Would love to connect with people in the community.

I don't want to use shitcord (discord) or any other platform that disrespects users privacy.

#languagelearning #fedihelp #japanese

Want to make the most of your Japanese studies? Here's how to employ the listening-reading (LR) method, which helps you boost both your literacy and your listening comprehension.

https://unseen-japan.com/read-japanese-books-listening-reading/

#unseenjapan #japan #ujwebsite #japanese

Can AI teach you Japanese? Can it improve your speaking ability? We tried some AI-fueled conversation practice apps and came down firmly on the "hell no" side. Read our review below.

https://unseen-japan.com/ai-japanese-speaking-practice/

#japan #unseenjapan #ujwebsite #japanese

Webpage in #Japanese and English

“Japanese Translation of Global Hibakusha by Robert A. Jacobs”

#translation #Japan #Hiroshima #hibakusha #ColdWar @histodons @sts #HPI

https://www.peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/web_essay/web-essay-in-june2025/

Webpage in #Japanese and English

“Japanese Translation of Global Hibakusha by Robert A. Jacobs”

#translation #Japan #Hiroshima #hibakusha #ColdWar @histodons @sts #HPI

https://www.peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/web_essay/web-essay-in-june2025/

New rules have gone into effect in Japan to crack down on "kira-kira names." Parents must now spell out a new child's registered name in katakana, & city halls can reject readings that have no relation to the underlying readings or meanings of the associated kanji.

#japan #unseenjapan #japanese

I'm very excited about this thing[0] I've been building for the last couple of weeks to help me bridge the gap between knowing some #Japanese and being able to enjoy the content I want.

I will open a beta in the next couple of weeks if anyone is interested. You can also hit me up in the discord server or here if you have suggestions or ideas that could help you in that direction as well.

[0] https://katarineko.com/

I'm very excited about this thing[0] I've been building for the last couple of weeks to help me bridge the gap between knowing some #Japanese and being able to enjoy the content I want.

I will open a beta in the next couple of weeks if anyone is interested. You can also hit me up in the discord server or here if you have suggestions or ideas that could help you in that direction as well.

[0] https://katarineko.com/

Major Japan tutoring firm apologizes for false claim on Minamata disease - Japan Today

https://japantoday.com/category/business/major-japan-tutoring-firm-sorry-for-false-claim-on-minamata-disease

> A major Japanese tutoring company has recently apologized for inaccurately describing the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease as hereditary in its online study material, a description that drew strong public criticism.

#Japanese #English #Japan #JapaneseCulture

Most languages:

"Here are our numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Have fun!" 🤗

Japanese:

"Here are the numbers for medium-sized objects. Unless they are long and thing, then you may want to use these. Unless they are flat, then you need this other set of numbers. Wait, does the thing have an engine?" 🤔

#Japanese
#Language
#日本語

Most languages:

"Here are our numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Have fun!" 🤗

Japanese:

"Here are the numbers for medium-sized objects. Unless they are long and thing, then you may want to use these. Unless they are flat, then you need this other set of numbers. Wait, does the thing have an engine?" 🤔

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"Japanese people under 40 who say they fear punctuation aren't remembering some long-lost past baked into their genes. They, like their English-speaking counterparts, just think that ending text messages with a period makes you sound like an asshole."

https://unseen-japan.com/punctuation-japan-mythology/

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Large show gardens unveiled at #RHSChelsea - Cha No Niwa – Japanese Tea Garden by Kazuyuki Ishihara.

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Large show gardens unveiled at #RHSChelsea - Cha No Niwa – Japanese Tea Garden by Kazuyuki Ishihara.

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https://www.alojapan.com/1274097/japanese-poetry-translation-documents-wwii-incarceration/ Japanese poetry translation documents WWII incarceration #history #humanities #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #literature #news #RaceAndEthnicity A collection of Japanese poetry written by a Japanese immigrant couple incarcerated during World War II has been translated into English for the first time, offering rare, first-person emotional insights into the losses and injustices of those detained during wartime in the United States. …

Names of European countries (+ some neighbouring ones) in Japanese. Europe itself in Japanese is either ヨーロッパ Yooroppa or 欧州 Oushuu.

※ Depicts one possible internationally recognized set of countries and borders.
※ Uses one possible transcription into the Latin alphabet (mostly resembling the Hepburn system).
※ Inspired by https://mastodon.ie/@artnacrea/114496747212232746
※ CC-BY-SA 3.0. Made by Rauli Häyrynen and authors mentioned at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_political_map_Europe_in_2008_(with_Kosovo).svg

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Young Japanese say they're wary of so-called "maru harassment," or "maru-hara," which is when someone ends a text message w/ a period. Over 31% of those between 15-29yo found such messages "scary" or "painful." Only 12.5% of those over 30 agreed.

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https://www.alojapan.com/1274097/japanese-poetry-translation-documents-wwii-incarceration/ Japanese poetry translation documents WWII incarceration #history #humanities #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #literature #news #RaceAndEthnicity A collection of Japanese poetry written by a Japanese immigrant couple incarcerated during World War II has been translated into English for the first time, offering rare, first-person emotional insights into the losses and injustices of those detained during wartime in the United States. …

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There is a scene in the novel "Higanbana Ga Saku Shima" by Li Kotomi where Umi, a girl of about 15 who was washed up on the shore of the eponymous "Island", is taught to write kanji by her same-age friend Yona:

"""
With a black pen, Yona showed Umi how to write a character stroke by stroke. One of those deep black, square "Island" characters that Umi could not read. It started with a dot, dot, then a horizontal line drawn from left to right, from there a short sweeping stroke to the left, then again a horizontal line and another one, and finally a vertical line with a again small upward turn at the bottom. Just by piling up dots, lines, sweeps and little hooks, a complete character was created. Umi scrutinised it curiously. "This is the 'U' in 'Umi'," Yona said. "Let's see if you can write it!"
"""

The character in question is 宇. Earlier in the novel, Yona had given Umi her name and she had wanted to write it as 霧実 but she changed it to 宇実 as it was simpler.

I love this scene as it takes me back to when I first started to learn kanji. I never learned to write them properly by hand though.

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I'm still reading "Higanbana Ga Saku Shima" by Li Kotomi and it is one of the most enjoyable novels I've ever read in Japanese. Not that it is all that easy, for one thing it's full of Chinese words; but it's so well-written and well-constructed, and the characters are very relatable.

I went looking for the meaning of the Chinese words. It's not easy as they are written with Japanese kanji with katakana ruby, but fortunately I found a list on a Japanese forum.

What I also learned there was the existence of the island of Yonaguni, which is part of Japan but very close to Taiwan. It has its own language (sadly now highly endangered) and has a fascinating history, and was at least part of the inspiration of this novel.

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