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Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Dir: Hayao Miyazaki
Independent witches, new friends and glorious talking cats
I gave this to my friend Hana and asked her to give the kanji a meaning. As one of the estimated 3-7,000 rare kanji, we didn't know what the real meaning was anyway. Without hesitation she began to write. "To be used when someone naively enters into a place they're ill-equipped for, and they need to be firm and move forwards." It turns out in reality, it's an alternate way to write 飛 (to fly). I feel like, in a way, her definition fits that. More info on this project, Jiji.
Each character's meaning is translated in the image caption.
I'm still working on my series Jiji, the project where I ask people to assign meanings to some of Japan's thousands of rare kanji. It's nice to have a light, simple project I can carry around with me. The first piece, pronounced ni (knee), was written by Jason Shon, an American working as the Kumamoto Prefectural Adviser to the prefecture's JET teachers. He used his own job experience as well as the character's two radicals, mouth and ear, to decide on its meaning. The second, pronounced chi (chee), was written by Togawa-sensei, my school nurse. She used the left radical, woman, and the right radical, which is often used in kanji dealing with dirt or earth, to produce the meaning Mother Earth. The third was by a friend's grade school coworker, a 26-year-old English teacher. Her character, shin (sheen), is made up of a radical for mountain (top) and one for tough, arduous, or spicy (bottom). Like the others, she took both into her meaning. I'm curious to see how people continue to creatively interpret a character's radicals. After all, combining the meaning of radicals was how many kanji were originally created. At the same time, I'd like to know what meaning would arise if someone disregarded the kanji's components and went with a more abstract, personal approach.
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*If you’re attending make sure to snag some pictures for me!!
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