ことばのクイズ Japanese word quiz
Let’s have a test to see your Japanese proficiency. 第１問 （ ）に入るのはa、bのどちら？ 汚名を（ ）する a. 挽回 b. 返上 第２問 （ ）に入るのはa～cのどれ？ 戦い...
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Traditional Japanese entertainment – Rakugo
Rakugo is one of the traditional Japanese entertainments. It is a kind of one person comical play that originated at about the end of the Edo period and the beginning of the Meiji period. Laughter is everything to rakugo...
Iroha Uta: Translation
Here is a literal translation: As colors smell but fall. Who are eternal in our world? Today, I went through deep mountain of existing form, and saw a shallow dream without being drunken. Read the full post ...
Iroha Uta: The Traditional Japanese Syllable Chart 2
The reading is: Character reading: Reading for meaning:i ro ha ni ho he to iro wa nio e dochi ri nu ru o chi ri nu ru owa ka...
Iroha Uta: The Traditional Japanese Syllable Chart
Click Image for larger view (another window will open) This is intended as an insight into Japanese culture and literature.The right picture shows the Iroha poem in Kanji, making the meaning more clearer. ...
Japanese: The use of 「きもち」の使い方
Let’s take a look into the word 気持ち(kimochi). For example, there are many meanings of the word きもち such as a feeling of a mental state in 「今のきもちはどうですか」 and the feeling concerning t...
New Japanese verbs: 受ける＝ウケる？
The verb 受ける, to take is used when “given/provided from something/someone” such as 試験を受ける, take an examination and 説明を受ける, take a guidance. However, recently there is a different meaning...
Japanese language: 敬語 Honorific
Is 「了解しました」an honorific expression? Is it rude to use it towards a customer? It is a very common expression and it is one honorific expression, a polite expression. 「了解」means “to understand clea...
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! The year of the Tiger. In actual fact the year of the Tiger has nothing to do with the year 2010 because it is the year 2010 according to the Christian calendar and the year of the Tiger is the year based...
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![It originates on the misfortune day [Red tongue day]. Besides, it is assumed the misfortune by the good luck only until about 1 PM of 11 AM. It takes care about the origin of fire and cutlery. The thing that [Death] is associated in a word is noted.](http://www.irohaproject.org/blog/wp-content/plugins/koyomi/image/roku5.gif "It originates on the misfortune day [Red tongue day]. Besides, it is assumed the misfortune by the good luck only until about 1 PM of 11 AM. It takes care about the origin of fire and cutlery. The thing that [Death] is associated in a word is noted.")
