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....
There's still a great chance that the conclusion to this basho could actually top the events from a year ago. For what more could sumo fans ask? Qoghusun as they say in Mongolian, so let's get right to the bouts starting with our leader. Yokozuna Asashoryu and Ozeki Chiyotaikai are ...
"celestial" and is translated as "heavenly being" or "celestial being." After reading this page, one obvious conclusion is that it seems possible "to begin with any starting point: no matter where one decides to start, one always arrives at the same results." <quoted from Iyanaga Nobumi...
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? Reply amandaon...
Stories “The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel,”“Mold,”“Layers of Fear,”“The Thing That Drifted Ashore,” and “Back Alley” join the lineup. About the series: “Featuring a selection of 20 macabre masterpieces brimming with his original worldview and fascinating characters drawn in his ...
The list below is ordered alphabetically by author, starting out with Japanese literature. Afterwards is a short list of mostly nonfiction books by Japanese and foreign authors, and at the end are a few films. There are links to amazon if you want to get the books for yourself. Japanese ...
“honoring hermes on fourth day of the month” — One tidbit about Hermes is that he was born in the tenth month of the lunar year (starting with the first new moon after the summer solstice, so sometime in April) on the fourth day of the lunar month (four-ish days after the New ...
"Ma (真)" is a prefix to emphasize the noun that follows, as here with "makka (真っ赤)," or like in "makkuro (真っ黒), black as ink, or "manatsu (真夏)," the middle of summer. The prefix "o" is added to "hana," nose, for politeness. The names of animals are sometimes...
While I don't agree with her comments, before so many of you rant and rave about her, these kinds of ideas are really starting to take hold in many western countries as well. Look at the Maga crowd, and the Truckers for Freedom in Canada. They believe the same thing as do their ...
certainly stood comparison with that of the contemporary Anglophone world. Keywords: TokugenYōson德嚴養存 (1632–1703);Unshō運敞 (1614–1693);SōsanGensei艸山元政 (1623–1668);Nyokai如海 (?-1711);17th-century Anglo–Japanese comparisons...