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The Tokyo National Museum's Heiseikan's latest exhibition explores the history of calligraphy in Japan. First imported with the Chinese writing system, calligraphy developed a distinct Japanese ...
There are not one but three writing systems that work together in the Japanese alphabet system: namely Hiragana, Katakana & Kanji. Here’s an in-depth guide.
Yes, until you get a little experience with the language and build up a base of vocabulary, sometimes it’s going to be extremely frustrating that Japanese has three different styles of writing. It ...
Scholars credit Shimizu Shikin as one of the first writers to adopt a new narrative style of Japanese writing in the early 20th century—the I Novel, a confessional genre in which the literary events ...
Regarding Akita Kimi's Dec. 27 letter, 'Another way of writing names': In response to Mikami Takashi's Dec. 20 reasoned plea for limiting Japanese names to surname-first usage in English, Akita's ...
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