Monday, 22 July 2013

Masaoka Shiki summer kigo haiku 1896


Here is a screenshot of my Curl applet with over one thousand summer kigo (季語)  haiku {俳句} of Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki正岡 子規 ) from the year 1896, early in his mature period.


The applet has a scrolling tree kigo index, FIND and COPY. The applet in intended as an aid for recognizing kanji through reading haiku.

All kanji habe been converted from SH-JIS to utf-8.



Sunday, 30 June 2013

RAIMBAULT ROUILLE et Les 500 kanji (ellipses)


Raimbault and Rouillé in their book Les 500 kanji saw fit to throw in compounds made with kanji which are not found in any of the 3 indices to that book.  Vexing. In one case the font used makes a kanji difficult to make out (for its high price, the printer and typesetter have let down the user.)

Rather than rail against them, I have started some web pages for those who buy the book and run into these not infrequent vexations and a few errors that seem inexcusable for a mere 500 entries for 50$ ( with 1500 often vexing compounds chosen, it seems, on a whim.)

Is that ellipses or elisions ?