Words And Peace Book reviews and good books for you to read Tag Archives:Japanese Book review: Japanese Kanji Made Easy Posted onDecember 16, 2022 27 Japanese Kanji Made Easy: An Easy Step-by-Step Workbook to Learn the Basic Japanese Kanji ...
"There's no place in this world for war. If we look to the past we can see the future. As a nation we scream 'no more!' We live to love with peace as the wind in our sail and we'll end up at the perfect destination," so the English translation of Hironaka's chorus went. T...
It was also fascinating to see how people tried toreinventa new life, when no other option was open to them. All the elements related tolanguagewere also an added bonus for me. It’s also about what makes yourpersonal and national identity, about family history,about theperception you have...
All of the prints are of females: courtesans, geisha, escorts — there are many words to describe young women of high status who were professional mistresses. The position was dangerous and tenuous, but the social structure of Edo Japan was very different to modern society and for those in ...
The on'yomi readings (san or zan) are used in more formal or Sino-Japanese contexts, such as names, titles, and compound words. The kun'yomi reading (yama) is the native Japanese word for mountain and is commonly used in informal or geographical contexts....
🖌 Funded by the government until 1945, Yasukuni - its name formed by combining the words for "peace" and "country" - was central to the state religion of Shintoism that mobilised the wartime population to fight in the name of a divine emperor.靖国神社在1945年之前一直由政府资助,其名称由...
With Japanese words throughout, this is a sweet and gentle story of a little girl, Momo (peach in Japanese), who is excited to use her new present of an umbrella and new rain boots. [picture book, ages 4-8] Tea With Milk by Allen Say May’s parents return to Japan and it’s a...
60. Ru-speak[(ichiren no)ruugo- (一連の)ルー語]: "Ru-speak" refers to comedian/actor Ru Oshiba's unique style of mixing English words with Japanese. [Source:U-Can Buzzwords of the Year]
whereas phonograms are used for both content words and function words. Such function words make the Japanese language agglutinative; that is, short function words are attached after each content word to indicate its role within the sentence (such as subject or object). Similar to Chinese, no wor...
107. NOBU (1-信, 2-延): Japanese name meaning 1) "faith" or 2) "to extend, prolong (esp. words)." 108. NOBUO (信夫): Japanese name meaning "faithful man." 109. NOBUYUKI (信行): Japanese name meaning "faithful happiness." 110. NORI (1-儀, 2-典, 3-則,...