Category: Asia

  • The snow dream (Japanese poem I wrote today)

    here is a poem in Japanese I wrote as a memoir for birth day (English and romaji below) 雪 の 思い出させる 睡 て 夢がえる 広いの 道路 じぶんで 走る 胸 の 下 から 君 の 暖か の 思い また に 思い出させる 雪 の おどり 君 と 一緒に 君 の 秘密 の 思い 恋 で 夢がえる

  • Kabuki music

    歌舞伎 の 音楽 !! それを 聞く ために テレビ の チャネル を 終わりました。

  • Takarabune, kartika purnima, devanagari and hiragana

    I checked the oldest “surviving” manuscript in Japan from 6th century AD (called Hokke Gisho) and these are the language characters Hiragana and Kanji) that are exactly same since then, no change so all letters should be same or slightly changed, what a modern system) る 、小、 氵+去、 行 (just a quick browse gave me…

  • My nihongo improvements.

    My nihongo improvements.

    My learning of the Japanese Language is two legged, once when I was living in Japan during 2002-2007; I lived there for 3 years. The interest of mine to learn any foreign language for that matter is immense, currently I am interested to learn more scripts, than I can happily be pursuing. The 2nd time…

  • meaning of night/name/woman a 1000 years ago !!

    3 kanjis who wants to learn some Japanese/Chinese !! 始 。hajime = begin/start. A woman [女] is often considered auspicious in many occassions hence a woman’s voice is the start of many activities. See that square is mouth [口] and the other part is perhaps the nose which defines a person or woman’s voice. To…