What I didn’t realise wasikigaiis the word used to describe the very passion that gets you out of bed in the morning; your reason for being. It’s a combination of what you’re good at, something you love and something the world needs. Just ask any centenarian in Okinawa why they s...
Katakana is not used as often as hiragana in Japanese sentences. Usually katakana characters are used for writing the names of foreign people, foreign words and onomatopoeias. So when we (Japanese) find any Katakana word in any sentence, we can easily understand that the word is not regular ...
for the fifth basic taste – along with sweet, sour, bitter and salty – that we didn’t have a name for or even know existed until someone premiered the word in the Japanese journal of psychology Shinrigaku Kenkyu in 1963. Since then it’s gone from strength to strength – metaphoricall...
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s death in 1666, however, Bashō abandoned hissamurai(warrior) status to devote himself topoetry. Moving to the capital city of Edo (now Tokyo), he gradually acquired a reputation as a poet and critic. In 1679 he wrote his first verse in the “new style” for which he came to be ...
Japanese literature - Kamakura, Muromachi, Azuchi-Momoyama: The warfare of the 12th century brought to undisputed power military men (samurai) whose new regime was based on martial discipline. Though the samurai expressed respect for the old culture, som
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The Greek word underlying this phrase li... Mitchell,W Matthew - 《Journal for the Study of the New Testament》 被引量: 6发表: 2003年 History of French Pharmaceutical Education from 16th Century up to the Present -Study on Japanese Pharmaceutical Education: Comparison between Japan and Fr......
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