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The sort of thing that people in their twenties enjoy. The Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature. Natsume Sōseki Digital Literary Museum). 夏目漱石デジタル文学館) to the public. It's all in Japanese, but there's a lot of stuff there, scanned. Transcribed. For example, I can't find a way to link directly to it, but you want to know what Sōseki wrote on the inside flap of Sudermann's. There's also letters, seal imprints, art, and even "relics": Sōseki's fountain pen! The fifth Sōseki 1000-yen note ever printed! To spo...
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The yakko in hiyayakko | No-sword
http://no-sword.jp/blog/2007/04/the_yakko_in_hiyayakko.html
Demanded that I explain. Asked me about the word hiyayakko. Specifically, the hiya. Part is obviously related to words like hieru. Become cold) and hiyasu. Make cold), but what about the yakko. I told him it was basically the same as yatsu. Meaning "guy" or "thing" (as the kanji suggests). But he pressed on: why would such a general word be applied only to tofu? I figured it was either that hiyayakko. Used to be used more generally, to mean "cold dish", and narrowed in meaning later; or that yakko. Were ...
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Words about sleeping | No-sword
http://no-sword.jp/blog/2005/11/words-about-sleeping.html
Pop quiz, hot shot: name the common modern Japanese verb X which had an older root/related form Y such that:. X : Y : deru (出る) : idu (出づ). Were shimo-2-dan verbs, meaning they conjugated like this:. Ide, ide, idu, iduru, idure, ideyo. Ine, ine, inu, inuru, inure, ineyo. And, today, both. Verbs that conjugate like. well, like in the table I just linked to. The difference is that the dictionaries are quite happy calling. But the relationship between. Isn't quite so clear cut. It seems that the. 寝を寝 looks ...
