"Traveling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller."
-- Ibn Battuta
Japanese Word or Phrase
I have renewed my enthusiasm to at least master some basic conversational Japanese as it is a very perplexing world to live in when I am always in a setting not understanding what is being said. I will begin posting my new efforts and progress here.
This Week:
yūgen (幽玄)
a term that Japanese artists and poets have used to signify
a deep appreciation and feeling of relatedness with the Universe.
HIRAGANA
Hiragana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases rōmaji. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana literally means "ordinary" or "simple" kana. Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems.
