very interesting, and kudos to you for delving into this topic. I find Japanese culture both intriguing and impenetrable. I ahve grown to like Manga and anime too.
I agree about the impenetrability and intriguing qualities. As I was rummaging around this rabbit hole, I kept on thinking, "Oh! If I were only, say, thirty years younger I could actually study this!" Japanese, Chinese, Korean languages are a great mystery to me. Their ideograms themselves are both a delight and a complete cipher.
Terry, I very much enjoyed your verse the other day. The couplets were wonderful, and most of them seemed to read effortlessly. I hope you do more. I thought of your epistolary exchanges with Rebecca, too. I had a colleague back in the 1990s who was a great poet and oboeist (don't see that combination much!). He and I restricted our email exchanges to an Oriental verse form called tanka. It was humorous to do business with the restraints of verse.
very interesting, and kudos to you for delving into this topic. I find Japanese culture both intriguing and impenetrable. I ahve grown to like Manga and anime too.
I agree about the impenetrability and intriguing qualities. As I was rummaging around this rabbit hole, I kept on thinking, "Oh! If I were only, say, thirty years younger I could actually study this!" Japanese, Chinese, Korean languages are a great mystery to me. Their ideograms themselves are both a delight and a complete cipher.
Terry, I very much enjoyed your verse the other day. The couplets were wonderful, and most of them seemed to read effortlessly. I hope you do more. I thought of your epistolary exchanges with Rebecca, too. I had a colleague back in the 1990s who was a great poet and oboeist (don't see that combination much!). He and I restricted our email exchanges to an Oriental verse form called tanka. It was humorous to do business with the restraints of verse.