autumn wind kanji

Here is an image of the Curl applet with Bashō haiku with most of the kana removed:

I find this encouraging as a student of kanji ... I see at a glance how far I have come and how far I have to go yet !

kana : Japanese syllabary characters, either hiragana or katakana ( as easy as Italian or Russian.)
kanji : characters from Chinese used for their sound, their meaning or both ( and multiples of these !)

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basho kanji only

Here is a snapshot of Bashō haiku running left to right in rows with no kana ( only kanji are displayed.)

The next step is to selectively add colour and to make kana display optional.

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haiku kanji kana

In making a list of the kanji used by Bashō in his haiku, I decided to produce a version of the haiku with most kana suppressed.

Here is one snapshot from a list of haiku running in rows left to right :

I find it quite fascinating to scroll nearly 1000 rows after removing nearly as many of one hiragana character. Which do you think it was ?

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