If the shell is even slightly cracked during boiling, the white material bubbles out and sets like a tiny mountain chain over the crack—like an archipelago of volcanic islands such as the Hawaiian Islands. But the earth is so much bigger and the mantle below is so much hotter. Even ...
qúndǎo group of islands; archipelago 青岛 qīngdǎo Qingdao, subprovincial city in Shandong 朝鲜半岛 cháoxiǎn bàndǎo Korean Peninsula 小岛 xiǎodǎo isle; Kojima (Japanese surname and place name) Derived Words or Phrases Sign-inSimilar-sounding Words Sign-inNew...
Image is from the Map of Oceania, published by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. What Is An Archipelago? The name "archipelago" is often used when referring to a closely scattered cluster of islands. The islands of an archipelago can be in a cluster, in a chain, or scattered ...
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But then, something new happened. The Japan Meteorological Agency, a government organization,issued a ‘megaquake advisory’for the first time. This pair of words may appear disquieting—and to some extent, they are. There is a ticking bomb below Japanese waters, a giant crevasse where one tec...
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From the earliest stages of reading and writing in the Japanese archipelago, the methodology of kanbun kundoku (vernacular reading of literary Sinitic) has been an important means of engagement with Chinese texts. The kanbun kundoku process of glossing and syntactic rearrangement transforms a literary...
One of the earliest poems recorded in the Japanese language is in a collection called the Kojiki. One of the works in the anthology speaks about the creation myth of Japan, in which the god of storms, Susanoo-no-Mikoto, created eight islands among the first of the Japanese archipelago: "...
Existing data indicate that there is great inter-regional variability in technology, subsistence, paleoenvironment, and adaptation associated with pottery, therefore the motivation for the adoption of pottery is distinct within various geographical, environmental, and temporal contexts in the archipelago....