Yoshihiro Tatsumi (辰巳 ヨシヒロ, Tatsumi Yoshihiro, June 10, 1935 – March 7, 2015) was a Japanese manga artist who is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative comics in Japan, having allegedly coined the term in 1957.His work has been translated into many langu...
Japanese phonotactics only allow one coda –“n.” So no syllables can end on any consonant other than “n,” and no consonant clusters are allowed except for those starting with “n.” All English consonant clusters have to be epenthesized with vowels, usually “u” but sometimes “i....
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Some sentences have different structures, and we still don't know what adverbs, adjectives, verbs, nouns, and particles look like exactly. In this article we'll see all of this and some more, so you'll have a starting point even if you know nothing about Japanese. ...
Starting with Kōkei, Unkei’s Father Data from Sculpture of the Kamakura Period (ISBN 0-8348-1017-4)Also from 日本史小百科 ・彫刻 ・久野健編 ・近藤出版社刊 不空羂索観音Fukūkenjaku Kannonby Kōkei, dated +1189.Lacquer & gold Leafover wood, H = 348 cmKōfukuji Temple 興福寺, ...
A Japanese friend who had just changed jobs complained to me that the new work environment was really ザ・会社 (za kaisha, “the” company). Which was to say it was full of red tape, opaque procedures, cemented hierarchies and everything else one commonly associates with the unpleasant asp...
Years ago, when the sake craze was first starting, we went to a restaurant in Columbia, SC (I know!) that was featuring sake flights. There was a very thick, creamy sake they served, and my husband really liked it. What kind of sake is it and where can I find it?
In this psychological horror thriller anime bySatoshi Kon, a young singer, Mima (Junko Iwao) of a popular J-pop group, is encouraged by her agent to retire from singing and pursue a career in acting, starting with a role in a murder mystery television series. But when one of her obsessi...
Inserting and playing the disc, the text-dominant menu appears, and the film commences with the text-dominant opening titles. 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 ...
I thought it would be different to write in a closed Issue, so I will write here, which is the starting point. I think that I exhausted the possible enhancements on Meilisearch for now. If so, it may still be difficult to use it production in a Japanese environment at this time. ...