Nihongoism
Bob MyersEncounters with the Japanese Language
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Ten Thousand What?
In a recent article on the character 運 (Why does Japanese use the same character for “luck” and “carry”?), I quoted a famous sentence from Dōgen, the thirteenth-century Zen master, in his masterwork Shōbōgenzō (正法眼蔵, “Treasury of the True D...
What exactly is ginjo sake?
Most people who drink sake learn right off the bat that a ginjo (吟醸) or daiginjo (大吟醸) means something exceptional is happening in the bottle.
But how many know that the key distinction between ginjo and “lesser” sakes is primarily the pol...
Why does Japanese use the same character for "luck" and "carry"?
When a Japanese speaker says un ga ii (運がいい), they mean someone is lucky. When they say unten (運転), they mean driving. When they say un’yu (運輸), they mean freight transport. These don’t feel like they belong together. But in fact they share...
Hey Bob, how much of this are you just making up anyway?
“Hey Bob, how much of this stuff are you just making up anyway?”
An entirely reasonable question, which I have been asked in various forms. For example, one reader wondered why I didn’t invite knowledgeable linguists or language learning s...
The Japanese Art of Thinking, Part 2
The Japanese word kangaeru carries an expectation of effortful, transformative cognition—that you haven’t truly 考えた until your understanding has shifted. In Part 1, we traced 考える (kangaeru) from its earliest attested form kamugapu in the Ni...
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