Sam Hamill's page 44 translation of a tanka by Yosano Akiko

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Japanese Kanji Recognition Mnemonics through poetry : KanjiRecog

Recognize and recall kanji read in Japanese poetry 

The original Japanese poem for the tanka on page 44 of Sam Hamill's "River of Stars" volume of Yosano Akiko poetry translations is

こころみにわかき唇ふれて見れば冷かなるよしら蓮の露

taking こころみ as 試み

New kanji might be lips, cold water, lotus and dew.

唇 冷 蓮 露

KKLC KKLD_2-Ed

1847   2385    唇

0675   0061    冷

0585   2047    蓮

1907   2454    露

KKLC Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course, 2013, Andrew Scott Conning
KKLD 2nd ed. Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary, 2013, Jack Halpern

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Adobe Reader PDF Text COPY : kanji + furigana copied

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The image below is of a PDF open in the latest Adobe Reader ; as you see, the text copy selection also grabs the furigana, producing slightly problematic results as plain text.

Web page copies tend to place the furigana in-line, which is even worse!

A typical result from Adobe Reader follows:

夜の　

ちやう

帳にささめき尽きし星の今を　

げかい

下界　の人の鬢のほつれ

よ

Is the last item furigana or not?

Compare my Curl markup example in this blog post. The MIT Curl browser plugin is available at the Tokyo SCSK site.

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nape collar neck Conning kanji

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Andrew Scott Conning Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course

The head, page and the neck kanji

1915 0521 項

1916 0124 頃

1917 0132 傾

1918 0953 頑

1919 0955 頒

1920 0957 頓

1921 1605 顕

1922 1133 領

1923 1569 頻

1924 0386 捗

1925 0009 順

See : leaf, page, head versus neck, poem counter vs leaf

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