Notices tagged with japanese

The first image is a 1925 #manga by #Japanese #artist Kitazawa Rakuten. The second one is the famous 'jealous girlfriend ' meme. Truly, there's nothing new under the sun. I don't mean jealousy.

Kaori Kurihara.

Japanese Ceramicist Handcrafts Fanciful Sculptures of Enchanting Exotic Fruits

In Purmerend Museum from March 27
till August 17 2025

https://mymodernmet.com/kaori-kurihara-ceramic-sculptures/

#ceramics #japan #art #Japanese #purmerend #PurmerendsMuseum

#Japanese

In Japan, there are services to rent a girlfriend or a family. Stranger still, you can now rent out a middle-aged man.

Middle-aged men, referred to colloquially in Japanese as "ossan," can now be loaned out to people who need someone to talk to, or a helping hand with daily tasks.

#Japan #Asian #RentalService #Ossan #Japanese #Business

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250418/p2a/00m/0na/006000c

https://www.alojapan.com/1229229/japan-scrambles-to-avoid-u-s-auto-tariff-as-it-looks-at-options/ Japan scrambles to avoid U.S. auto tariff as it looks at options #AsahiShimbun #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news #politics Japan is scrambling to find ways to get the United States to exempt its automakers from a ruinous 25-percent tariff due to take effect on April 3. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi instructed the ministers of the economy and trade, transport and farm ministries to look into non-tariff barriers, such…

猫柳 [Nekoyanagi]
Salix gracilistyla

猫 [Neko] : Cat
柳 [Yanagi] : Willow

via konjaku

#Japanese
#plants
#catkins
@photography

#Japanese #日本語

Photo 1: kawazu-zakura (河津桜), an early blossoming variety of cherry blossoms, which I found at a little-known site in Yodo (淀) in southeastern Kyōto Prefecture.

2: the largest gorintō (五輪塔) in Japan, representing five elements of the universe.

3-4: Iwashimizu Hachiman-gū (石清水八幡宮) is a major Shintō shrine in southeastern Kyōto Prefecture. It has exquisite architecture, many stone lanterns, and covers a large forested hill, a pristine environment for hiking.

#Japan #Kyoto #Japanese #religion #Shinto #CherryBlossoms #travel #sightseeing #hiking #nature #photography #photos

Indoor Japanese Gardens with Lanterns
#Japanese #Garden #pond #Indoor #lanterns #landscape #midjourney #ai #aiart #aiartwork #architecture

#lol #funny #japan #japanese #band #music

Need more Japanese reading practice? Trying to understand newspaper-level Japanese? For the most part, it requires a lot of immersive reading. But there are some tools you can use to help give you a leg up.

https://unseen-japan.com/japanese-reading-practice-newspapers/

#japan #unseenjapan #ujwebsite #japanese

A Japanese game show where the contestants serve tea in a tilted restaurant.

#Videos #Funny #Japanese

Watching Asura 阿修羅のごとく, I came across the term 八つ当たり, which is weird if you don't know it. It means "taking your anger out on someone else", or "misdirected anger".

Literally (I think) it just means "hitting something eight times", so I wonder how that came to have this meaning.

#日本語 #Japanese

Kanji: 謎

riddle, puzzle, enigma, hint, tip

メイ　ベイ
なぞ

謎解き (なぞとき) — solving a riddle
謎を解く (なぞをとく) — to solve a mystery
謎かけ (なぞかけ) — telling a riddle
謎掛け (なぞかけ) — telling a riddle
謎謎 (なぞなぞ) — riddle
謎謎 (なぞなぞ) — riddle
謎を掛ける (なぞをかける) — to pose a riddle
謎をかける (なぞをかける) — to pose a riddle
謎めく (なぞめく) — to be enigmatic
謎々 (なぞなぞ) — riddle

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🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 鯨

whale

ゲイ
くじら

捕鯨 (ほげい) — whaling
捕鯨船 (ほげいせん) — whaling ship
鯨類 (げいるい) — cetaceans
鯨肉 (くじらにく) — whale meat
国際捕鯨委員会 (こくさいほげいいいんかい) — International Whaling Commission
白鯨 (はくげい) — white whale
鯨波 (げいは) — raging waves
鯨油 (くじらあぶら) — whale oil
鯨幕 (くじらまく) — black and white striped curtain (used at funeral service)
捕鯨砲 (ほげいほう) — harpoon gun

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🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Kanji: 滞

stagnate, be delayed, overdue, arrears

タイ　テイ
とどこお.る

滞在 (たいざい) — stay
渋滞 (じゅうたい) — congestion
滞納 (たいのう) — falling behind (with a payment)
停滞 (ていたい) — stagnation
滞在中 (たいざいちゅう) — during a stay
滞納者 (たいのうしゃ) — non-payer
交通渋滞 (こうつうじゅうたい) — traffic congestion
滞留 (たいりゅう) — stagnation
滞る (とどこおる) — to stagnate
滞り (とどこおり) — stagnation

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🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese

Japanese relocation, California. A view of the quarters at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority Center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration. Mount Whitney, highest peak in the United States, is in the background

#Japanese #California #Manzanar #MountWhitney #theUnitedStates #WorldWarII #DorotheaLange #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017699966/

Kanji: 拳

fist

ケン　ゲン
こぶし

鉄拳 (てっけん) — tightly clenched fist
拳銃 (けんじゅう) — pistol
拳法 (けんぽう) — Chinese martial arts
八極拳 (はっきょくけん) — bajiquan (Chinese martial art)
太極拳 (たいきょくけん) — grand ultimate fist
中国拳法 (ちゅうごくけんぽう) — Chinese martial art
拳骨 (げんこつ) — fist
握り拳 (にぎりこぶし) — clenched fist
野球拳 (やきゅうけん) — yakyuken
裏拳 (うらけん) — backhand blow

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🏫 中学

#kanji #japanese