“In the centre of the composition is a depiction of the Baiterek Tower, a monumental structure representing the ‘tree of life’ with a large ‘egg’ nestling in its branches. The monument is situated in the centre of Astana and it has come to represent the thrusting ambitions of the capi...
Kamite will warn you if you specify an unknown key in a config file, since mistyping their names is a common source of mistakes. But it will at the same time ignore keys whose names start with a capital letter, under the assumption they are your own keys, like MY_HOME_DIRECTORY in ...
Tanuki-Related Terms and Names Anaguma 穴熊 (badger) Arai-guma 洗熊 (racoon, raccoon) Bakedanuki 化け狸 (shape-shifting tanuki) Bai 霾 (misty, foggy; made up of radical for rain 雨, and the old kanji for tanuki 貍) Furudanuki 古狸 (old tanuki, one able to shape shift) Iwadanuki...
Sui-Feng (砕蜂) is the second commander in chief of the Onmitsukido, and she is also the second captain of the 2nd Division in the Gotei 13. Her lieutenant is Marechiyo Omaeda. Sui-Feng was born as Shaolin Feng on the day of February 11th (蜂 梢綾) into
The names of Kohaku's acolytes are revealed. A fast food restaurant is featured representing Burger King in Towa's dream. The music that Setsuna played on her violin is the song that Asagi sang in the 4th and final film. Kirinmaru makes his official debut, though his face has yet to ...
However, the names of the shrine and the deity are conflated as is usual in Buddhism. Thus it was also called Asama Daibosatsu 浅間大菩薩 (also read as Sengen Daibosatsu, which can in turn be written 仙元大菩薩), Asama Daimyōjin 浅間大明神, and Fuji Gongen富士権現. By the late 9th...
These have been representing the female and the male, respectively. The potato is drawn most directly from the expresson "couch potato," which could mean anyone who lounges on the couch, eating snack food and watching televion, and probably drinking beer. However, it is generally males who ...
Text and titles confer a legitimacy on a work, whether it is a trade mark of the laser print owners, or the household names of stars. Text titles confer status relationships on both the presenters of the cultural artifact and the viewer who has entered into a legal license agreement with ...
Ideally, it would also familiarize the student with characters as they are commonly used for names of people and places. Unfortunately, as far as I know, no system matching these criteria is available, to my knowledge. If I want to use a system like this, I’ll have to create it. It...
(especially in the kitchen), with daikokuten representing agriculture & bountiful harvests, and ebisu representing the ocean & bountiful fishing. both are heralded by merchants as gods of commerce. also, around the mid 17th c., daikokuten was purposefully conflated with kami Ōkuninushi (great ...