The Book of Tea

by Kakuzo Okakura

Reblogged 6 hours ago from hooverville1895

maybe you're interested in this, tea, I haven't read it yet. though, The Book of Tea,

Story of Tanabata

Do you know why Tanabata is such a popular festival in Japan?
Do you know why it is always a good sign to have a blue sky on July 7th/August 7th?

Tanabata

Do you know about the star festival Tanabata?

Time to learn something about Japanese culture! Read some Folk Legends

Posted 9 hours ago

what's your favourite?, Folk Legends, for kids, and adults, Japanese, culture, good to know, society, myth, retsu,

no-storm-without-rain folgt dir jetzt

ようこそ!

I hope you’ll enjoy your stay and maybe learn about this wonderful country and language!
Feel free to contact me at any time.

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町 - village; town (まち) Can also be road or street

onekanjiaday:

On’yomi: チョウ

Other compounds using 町

町民 - townspeople (ちょうみん)

町役場 - townhall (まちやくば)

同町 - the same town; that town (どうちょう)

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kumako365jp:

I guess this kanji is one of the most well-known characters among non-Japanese/Chinese speakers?:)

This is FUKU, meaning good luck and blessing. It’s a good word. And it’s the same Fuku from Fukushima as well.

I have seen several foreign people for real who wear tattoos and accessories designed with this character. Do you happen to have one, too? :)

This is it, isn’t it?

福

I’ll never get over it how different calligraphy and Kanji looks.
It’s always so difficult to get the right reading…

Reblogged 2 days ago from kumako365jp

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Lesson 12: what time you do things

icanspeakjapanese:

01/06/12

I’m sorry there wasn’t a lesson on Wednesday, I was moving out of my flat that day so had no time to get online and write up this lesson. I really need to start queuing these! Sorry!!

Anyway, we learned how to tell the time, so now we’ll go over to sat what time you do things, using this pattern:

PERSON は TIME に VERB.

Of course the person can be omitted, as is common in Japanese, and places etc. can be added as well.

Here are some examples:

私は 7時に起きます。

わたしは 7 じにおきます。

Watashi ha nana no okimasu.

I get up at 7.

私は 9時に食べました。

わたしは 9じにたべました。

Watashi ha kuu-ji ni tabemashita.

I ate at 9.

And lastly you might want to ask what time someone does something. For this question we will use “いつ”, roughly meaning when. Take note that the “に/ni” particle is not used in the question.

いつ　に　大学　（だいがく）　へ　いきますか。

itsu ni daigaku he ikimasuka.

For today’s homework, answer me the following questions in Japanese, then ask me a similar question:

1. いつ　起きますか。　いつ　おきますか。　itsu okimasuka.

2. いつ　大学　/ 仕事　/ 学校へ　行きますか。　いつ　だいがく　しごと　がっこう　へいきますか。　itsu daigaku / shigoto / gakkou he ikimasuka.

: 大学　/ だいがく / daigaku = university

: 仕事 / しごと / shigoto = job/work

: 学校　/ がっこう / gakkou = school

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口 - mouth; orifice; opening (くち)

onekanjiaday:

On’yomi: コウ; ク

Other compounds using 口

口紅 - lipstick (くちべに)

出口 - an exit (でぐち)

人口 - population (じんこう)

窓口 - ticket window (まどぐち)

口座 - an account, such as a bank account (こうざ)

川口 - the mouth of a river (かわぐち)

口調 - tone; expression (くちょう)

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目 - an eye (め)

onekanjiaday:

On’yomi: モク; ボク

Other compounds using 目

目的 - purpose; aim (もくてき)

項目 - item (こうもく)

目撃 - eye witness (もくげき)

注目 - notice; attention; observation (ちゅうもく)

目指す - to aim at; to have an eye on (めざす)

目標 - mark; objective; target (もくひょう)

目立つ - to be conspicuous; to stand out (めだつ)