Free Online Japanese Lessons
I just launched a new Japanese lesson last week but haven’t had the chance to promote it as of yet. I used these Japanese lessons in some of my classes while I was teaching at Yulin Normal University in Guangxi, Ch...
Category Archives: Japanese
「Japan」の由来は！？The origin of the word Japan??
Where does the name Japan come from? In Japanese it is 日本 [nihon] or [nippon] and bares no resemblance to “Japan”. The name Japan seems to have originated from Cipangu, which was first mentioned in Europe...
June – Minazuki 水無月（みなづき）
In Japan the sixth month of the lunar new year is called 水無月 [minazuki] and is often used in referring to June in the western calender today. There are many origins of this word. Literary, the main interpretation i...
Oita one-man local train
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Japanese Anime and Manga Website
A new website, ‘Japanese in Anime and Manga’, for learners of Japanese who like Japanese animation and comic books, is now open! It’s an e-learning site that offers a fun way to learn a number of character/genre-ba...
三線 Sanshin
The Sanshin is a three string Okinawan instrument from which the Japanese shamisen (三味線) originated. The original sanshin consists of a python covered body, neck and three string and has close ties to China where i...
Koushin Pagodas today (3)
Now due to the enthusiasm of such people as individual followers and Koushin forum people, Koushin pagodas (庚申塔) were built. These Koushin pagodas are placed on slightly elevated plateaus and overlook roadsides, co...
バリアーフリー Barrier free
バリアーフリー is ‘barrier free’ it is used to mean ‘accessible for wheelchairs’. They are applying this to the sidewalk, fine make it more accessible but wait a moment. What do they mean b...
About the Koushin belief (2)
There are many Japanese expressions with the word insect (虫, mushi) in them such as: 「虫の居所が悪い」, (mushi no idokoro ga warui) or “To be in a bad mood”, and 「腹の虫が治まらない」, (Hara n...
Koushin （庚申塔）-Photos
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![Meaning of [The friend is pulled to the unlucky affair]. The good luck and daytime are large good lucks in the misfortune and the evening in the morning. However, the funeral is abhorred.](http://www.irohaproject.org/blog/wp-content/plugins/koyomi/image/roku1.gif "Meaning of [The friend is pulled to the unlucky affair]. The good luck and daytime are large good lucks in the misfortune and the evening in the morning. However, the funeral is abhorred.")
