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How to write hiragana stroke ends
Testing the power of phonetic components in Japanese kanji
List of resources on Chinese “character etymology”
List of «official» Japanese simplified kanji
The flowers of Hanafuda
⁂
Chronological index
2013
Tenshi Sōzō Sunawachi Hikari (Português)
Day T minus 26: Fujiyama Fantasy
Tea ceremony imagery
Slowing down, & my own Peregrinaçam
Announcing
myougiden
, a command-line Japanese/English dictionary
Kanji
and speech,
kanji
and mind
Tea ceremony notes: The difference between
Usucha
and
Koicha
Update to phonetic series, and Kansai-ben
Testing the power of phonetic components in Japanese kanji
2012
Fernão Mendes Pinto in Japan
Martin on speech levels in Japanese (aka
Keigo
)
Desu
A few notes on
koronia-go
, by Yoshio Mase
The
Colônia Man’yôshû
Yami-no-who?
Why Japan? Which Japan?
An informal review of Wixted’s
A Handbook to Classical Japanese
Pictographic characters for Chinese bronzeware
Some Japanese queer vocabulary
Some Léon Wieger quotes
List of humdrum words that look cool in kanji (by: Sei Shônagon)
Boltz on the origin of Chinese characters
Ladefoged & Maddieson on Japanese phonetics
The Shôrinji Kempô Theme Song
Otaku and otaku
Kanjigen updates
MS-DOS manga
Japanese word boundaries: inflected nouns?
The upward slant in Eastern and Western calligraphy
English translated lyrics for Ningen Isu,
Rashômon
Lurie on Lafcadio Hearn and insects
Japanese words for clouds
Literature as possession
Kappanese
It’s OK to use double-storey “a” in pīnyīn
Modern reconstructions of Old Japanese: Miyake and Frellesvig
How to bewitch foxes and curse people
Beyond
man’yôgana
: characters as art in the
Man’yôshû
Phonogram transcriptions of Old Japanese: Miyake’s five systems
A couple items of 2ch slang
Portuguese as decoration
Linguistic ghosts of Sino-Japanese:
go-on
,
kan-on
,
tôsô-on
and other misnomers
Alphabetic transcriptions of Old Japanese
The Old Japanese binary numeral system
A post every Sunday
or Monday
Vowel alternance in Japanese
2011
A preposterous idea by A.L. Sadler
The flowers of Hanafuda
List of «official» Japanese simplified kanji
Korekore shikajika
John Timothy Wixted on being an Orientalist
Comparative kanji etymology tool
List of resources on Chinese “character etymology”
List of dead japanophiles
Chinese writing on the wall
Morris on why Heian aristocrats weren’t snobs
Fire and flood
Ihara Saikaku: author vs. narrator
How to write hiragana stroke ends