The coxswain was doing a fine job: as soon as he noticed that the crew were not responding together to his instructions, he immediately addressed them by their names and directed them individually. After a few minutes, our team caught up and eventually passed the finishing line with a small...
3. Bushu names are in Japanese Names of bushu are just nicknames given historically by educators and scholars for the ease of identifying a particular kanji in Japanese. For instance, (1) Hen (偏) means “a part on the left side,” such as イ ninben“person; an act done that a person...
Note that in the era under study, Japanese often changed their first / given names in recognition of phases or changes in their lives; becoming an adult, reaching 60 years of age, or at any age to designate some eventful political or personal event. Sometimes, frequently; sometimes, in ...
Here is a related example of this paradox that my mother experienced. When my mother was in junior high school, there was a random group of kids who took extra classes. They were always taken from the classroom occasionally and studied in a different classroom. She later found it out that ...
Japanese characters may look mysterious and impenetrable to the uninitiated - but we'll show in a few examples that they are not at all difficult to understand. The characters are not just random strokes; each is a picture, and has a meaning based on the content of the picture. The ...
But then, for over a century it has been the shoulders of Zeiss that the other big dogs (with the exception of Leica) have stood upon to make names for themselves.Sorry Kenny, I have not heard that quote firsthand. But I certainly would not doubt it.As the tip of the sword in the...
I’ve used that page to make notes in the book so I know what fabric they’ve used, the sizes and amounts of fabric to buy. There is a list of Japanese names of fabrics and their English translationshere.This pageis also good to read. But don’t let the fact that there’s no ...
The novel’s title is an allusion to the names of the five friends: All except Tsukuru’s last name contain a color: red, blue, white, black. Murakami draws an image of deep friendship among the five highschool students which is destroyed forever on outcasting one of them, who, for la...
According to De Long, Price’s interest and knowledge of Edo art did not spring spontaneously from the head of Zeus, as Price would have it. “I really believe that Joe Price became interested in Japanese art through Goff, because the first names that Joe began to collect--Jakuchu and the...
I read articles about the rising death toll as more bodies are found, and see the numbers of children among them, including some as young as five. I suddenly become tearful, realizing that they could so easily have been my own kids. I had already forgotten this, just days after the disa...