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 I wrote it about a story related to the KANJI in my blog the other day.
Such a thing has been sent to me from my friend.
KONNA MONO GA OKURARETE KIMASHITA.
It's called a Samurai cap.

A samurai seems to have already become one of the international words.
(KOKUSAITEKI NA TANGO)
It is the samurai, who served the nobility in old days,
Under influence of movies such as "seven samurais"(SHICHININ NO SAMURAI")
 or "a last samurai,"
The taste and way of life came to attract attention abroad. 

                                      
















 It is popular in Japan for around 1 year to use "the samurai words" by
the emailof the mobile telephone.
For example,TATOEBA,
 "Surprised!!" → 『これはしたり』"KOREHASHITARI."
"I am so happy!!" →　『恐悦至極』"KYOUETSUSHIGOKU."
As for  『拙者』 "SESSHA" written on my knit cap means 『私』"I"(WATASHI).
The feeling with some heaviness of words gives a cool impression
and wants to surely use it. It is cool.CHOTTO KAKKOII DESU.


To the background (HAIKEI NIHA,) where the samurai word becomes popular.
A game and the comics that described the world of the samurai became a hit.
So the youths who had friendly feeling toward the words of a samurai used  in those works having increased.
In addition, "TSUKATTE MITAI BUSHI NO NIHONGO"
(Japanese of samurai who wants to use.)
（Written by JIN NOBI）
This book was read by many young women.
TAKUSAN NO  WAKAI JOSEI GA YOMIMASHITA.



I use this knit cap habitually.
SASSOKU, AIYOU SHITEIMASU.
But, with a Japanese fellow, we both understand a meaning of "SESSHA" immediately
So, I show a kanji part in rear and put it on.
I am a shy person.
(HAZUKASHI GARIYA DESU.)
When it is foreign countries, it is good because people do not
understand the meaning of the kanji.



There are another 2 kinds of this hat with the kanji of 『黙』"MOKU" and 　『愛』"AI"
(LOVE in Japanese).
『黙』"MOKU" means "Be Silent!!(DAMARE)"and "Shut your mouth!"(SHIZUKANI SHIRO) in Japanese.
It's also like "I'm keeping silence."（DANMARI） It is like mysterious, and sounds cool.
NANKA, KAKKOII DESU.
 

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<YACHOU, SONOGO.>
I've talked about the bird cake that I hungs it with a hemp
string to the branch of my garden tree before.
During this winter, I continue making it all the time.
KONO FUYU NO AIDA, ZUTTO TSUKUTTEIMASU.
It is a recent situation report.  
KYOUHA, SONO KINKYOU HOUKOKOU DESU.
A lot of birds come over, TAKUSAN NO TORI GA YATTEKIMASU.
and my home is paradise of the wild bird every day!
YACHOU NO RAKUEN DESU.
A bird on the upper photograph is called the redstart (JOUBITAKI)
 which I think to be the prettiest above all.TOTTEMO KAWAII TORI!
The color of the stomach is orange.
ONAKANO IRO GA ORENJI IRO DESU.
And it is smaller than the sparrow and has a quiet character.
SUZUME YORIMO CHIISAKUTE OTONASHII SEIKAKU DESU.
This bird got used to me.
WATASHI NI NARETE IMASU.
It flies to my hand when I go out to hang the bird's food on the tree.
KAWAII DESHO.

Other various wild birds come to eat bait.
HOKA NIMO IROIRO NA TORIGA ESA WO TABENI KIMASU.
A bird called the wagtail(SEKIREI).
It has a monochrome wing, and the tail is long.
O GA NAGAI DESU.





Birds that is a little smaller than pigeons(HATO).
The name is uncertain. NAMAE HA WAKARIMASEN.
This bird is especially cautious.
This bird flies when I approach even a little.







In addition, a turtledove(YAMABATO), a bulbul(HIYODORI),
the sparrows(SUZUME) are regular customers. JOUREN DESU.
Recently(SAIKIN HA,) I mixed the bait of the bird with a bird cake,
and the taste of the bird cake powered it up more.
MOTTO OISHII YO.

About 20 sparrows come over in the morning.

When they perch on a tree and peck bait and sing (We say PI-CHIKU,PA-CHIKU),
it is very noisy. TOTEMO URUSAI DESU.
Because force of sparrows (SUZUME) gathering around the bait is so strong,
the redstart(JOUBITAKI) cannot readily approach the bait.
Oh well.
In world of any place, the group behavior is very strong, I think.


                                                                                  ↑  at the neighboring park
Winter will be over soon.
MOUSUGU FUYU GA OWARIMASU.
When spring comes, and the bait of the bird increases in the natural world,
I will stop putting a bird cake.
Hopefully, in the next winter, I wanna meet birds again both cheerfully, you know.

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Valentine's Day is just around the corner.
MOUSUGU BALENTAINDE- DESUNE.
How are the people in the world going to spend Valentine's Day?
SEKAIJUUNO MINASAMA, DONNAFUUNI BARENTAINDE-WO
SUGOSU YOTEI DESUKA?
Do you know?
SHITTEIMASUKA?
In Japan, Valentine's Day is a day of
 the confession of the love (AI NO KOKUHAKU)
A required item to use for confession is chocolate.
KOKUHAKU SURU TOKINI CHOKORE-TO WO DANSEI KARA DEHANAKU JOSEI GA AGEMASU.
A woman presentschocolate to a man not handing chocolate from a man.
There are two such rules.
I think, it's gonna be only a Japanese to spend this day in this way.

The Japanese is not particular about much religion events.
AMARI  KODAWARI MASEN.
In the same way as Christmas, we cut only the fun part of the overseas event.
IITOKO DORI!!
And we change it to the totally different event.
Why is it chocolate?
NAZE CHOKORE-TO NANO DESHOUKA?
Because(NAZENARABA,) this is the custom that a Japanese confectionery company spread for sales promotion of the chocolate.
I think it is a very splendid idea to let the girl who is good at spreading the fashion purchase a lot of chocolate.
TOTEMO SUBARASHII KANNGAE DESUNE.


When Valentine's Dayapproaches, in most department stores and super, such a sales floor is established.
Chocolate is piled up in this way like a mountain. YAMAZUMI DESU!!
But there are few people confessing the love with chocolate seriously recently.
Probably(OSORAKU) it will be only a teenage girl to confess the love with chocolate seriously.
Most women buy chocolate for the man of an acquaintance and the fellow worker
as a so typical present of Valentine's Day recently.

The chocolate for small children is also sold.
KOREHA, KODOMO MUKE NO CHOKORE-TO DESU.
←The character of the box in the top right corner says "Anpan-man",
and, regardless of boy  and girl, it is the character who is very popular among preschoolers.
SHOUNEN, SHOUJO WO TOWAZU YOUCHIENJI NI DAININKI DESU.



It is a character called "Peko-chan" of the Japanese famous cake maker.
This pencil-shaped chocolate(ENPITSU CHOKORE-TO) is a longtime seller from old days.


←It is "kinniku-man" to come out on the lower part of the photograph.
Do you know it? SHITTERU?


By the way,(TOKORODE) in Japan, there is one more characteristic custom
that a woman holds on Valentine's Day.
TOTTEMO TOKUCHOU TEKI NASHUUKAN GA MOU HITOTSU ARIMASU.
To me, it is hard to understand, but a woman bakes a handmade cookie or cake of the chocolate.
And gives the sweets to the guy who she loves.
Therefore the ingredients of the cake are also sold.

May I ask men in the world?
SEKAIJUU NO DANNSEI NI KIITE MO IIDESUKA?
Do you want to eatthe handmade chocolate from a beloved woman?
ANATA NO AISURU HITO KARANO TEZUKURI CHOKORE-TO GA HOSHII DESUKA?

Oh, well.
(MA- IIDESHOU.)
Japanese Valentine is a festival for girls.JOSEI NO TAMENO OMATSURI DESU.
They enjoy choosing the chocolate for their favorite guy.
At the store, they are all like saying eek eek! (KYA- KYA- IIMASU.)
And they will enjoy baking a chocolate cake or cookie for him and  they will enjoy wrapping the gift in the colorful wrapping paper while thinking about the favorite guy



The upper photograph is one of the constant seller chocolate of Japan.
UENO SHASHIN NO CHOKORE-TO HA NIHON NO TEIBAN NO CHOKORE-TO NO HITOTSU DESU.
I can buy it for around 90 yen in the supermarket.

Will the constant seller chocolate of the child be this? ↓
This is chocolate of the cheap candy shop called the Tirol chocolate.(CHIRORU CHOKO)
 It should have been one around 10 yen. The size is very small in about 2cm every direction.
A brown package is the constant seller of constant sellers, and coffee nougat enters inside.
↓ this was released only in a limited season by the same Tirol chocolate.
It's a chocolate of the soybean flour and the powdered green tea(MACCHA ), it is very Japanese-style chocolate.
This chocolate have won international food contest Mond selection gold medalconsecutively for two years. 　
Do you want to try?
TABETE MITAI MITAI DESUKA?

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<Do you enjoy the study of the KANJI?>

What do you think it is?
KOREGA NANIKA WAKARIMASUKA?
It is not some kind of codes.
It is the letter (TEGAMI) which my daughter who just turned
4 years old a month ago wrote.
WATASHI NO MUSUME GA KAKIMASHITA.
Almost decoding is impossible.
HOTONDO DOKKAIFUKANOU DESU.
According to her,
"Dear Mom, The hay fever season will start soon."
"OKAASAN, MOUSUGU KAFUNSHOU NO KISETSUDESU."
And,
"Dear Younger brother, You are so pretty."
"OTOUTO HE, KAWAII DESUNE."
Or, (ARUIHA)
"To Yumi chan,(She is her friend) Please do not forget about me."
"YUMI CHAN HE, WATASHI NO KOTO WO WASURENAIDE KUDASAI."
Those are hot message from her.
KANOJO KARA NO ATSU MESSE-JI DESU.

She seems to be dying to write the letter (MOJI) now.
Whenever I see her, she always has a pencil and
she is writing something to her note.
ITSUMO ENPITSU WO MOTTE NO-TO NI NANIKA KAITEIMASU.
If there are the curiosity and concentration,
it seems to be able to master most language study.
The concentration of the child is splendid.
KODOMOTTE SUGOI!!

This is the exercise book of the letter
(MOJI NO RENSHUUCHOU DESU.)
which my daughter wanted.
So I bought it for her.
It is a thick book.
BUATSUI HON DESU.
Kitty appears in the whole book.
Kitty CHAN GA DETE KIMASU.





You can study the KANJI too.
KANJI MO BENKYOU DEKIMASU.
A KANJI mentioned in here is a particularly simple KANJI.
It is common to learn this KANJI at five or six years old.







As for the Japanese, the study of the KANJI is very hard.
(so in China.)
TOTTEMO TAIHEN DESU.
Because the Japanese have to study a HIRAGANA letter, KATAKANA and the KANJI.
In addition to it, the English (EIGO) of the foreign language (GAIKOKUGO) is a required subject.
The reason why Japanese English is poor will be that the Japanese have to study Japanese a lot

There are people whom got positive thinking about studying KANJI
and enjoy KANJI learning.
KANJI HA TANOSHII!!
For example (TATOEBA), there is "formation (NARITACHI)" in KANJI,
There are a background (HAIKEI) and a meaning (IMI) in each
and is surely interesting when you study there.
TOTEMO KYOUMIBUKAI DESU.
It is difficult to explain about formation of the KANJI.
DEMO, "NARITACHI" NI TSUITE SETSUMEI SURUNO HA MUZUKASHIIDESU.
So, this time Miko took the color pencils!

Can you understand it?
WAKARIMASUKA?
"Mountain (YAMA)" of the KANJI was made from the shape of three ranging mountains.
"River (KAWA)" of the KANJI was made from a flow of the water.
The KANJI has picturesque character.






In the case of a difficult KANJI (MUZUKASHII KANJI),
there are a lot of people whom even an adult cannot write.
Because it's much easier using a HIRAGANA letter,
so you do not need to use a difficult KANJI.



For example, TATOEBA,
This is a KANJI called "the rose (BARA)".
Though it is readable, I think there are many people not to be able to write it.
YOMU KOTO HA DEKIRU KEREDO KAKU KOTO HA DEKIMASEN.
I am so, too. (WATASHI MO SOU DESU.)








In Japan, it is popular recently that a Japanese adult studies KANJI again.
There are many quiz shows related to the KANJI on TV (TEREBI).
The people who takes a qualifying examination
called the KANJI ability test system (KANJI NOURYOKU KENTEI) increased.
In a thing of the dull life only beating against the keyboard of a PC
and the mobile telephone, the profundity of the KANJI will be reconsidered.
KANJI NO OKUFUKASA GA MINAOSARETEKITEIMASU.

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