In my previous post about the Japanese "Iroha Karuta" playing card game I looked at a common proverb used to illustrate the tenth card in the sequence. The tenth card illustrates the tenth syllable

A lot of the local trains that head out of Hiroshima Station on the JR Sanyo line that takes you past Miyajima terminate at Iwakuni. Iwakuni is famous for its picturesque Kintaikyo Bridge (I should really

It's been a few months since I last posted about the Japanese "Iroha Karuta" card matching game of proverbs. Last time, I got as far as the ninth card, which is "Ri," (り) the ninth

The seventh Japanese proverb in some versions of the Iroha Karuta puts together two familiar but incompatible items from Japanese life: tofu and a carpenter's nail... The closest "dynamic equivalent"

Well, the title of this post says it all so I'd better not go on for too long about this, the sixth proverb in the Japanese Iroha Karuta series... The Japanese proverb goes like this: Heta no naga dangi

This is the fourth in the series of Japanese proverbs that make up the "Iroha Karuta" card deck. The original Japanese goes like this: "Nikumarekko yo ni habakaru." This proberb can

100 Yen Shop Deck Japanese is a language rich in amusing proverbs and sayings about everyday life. Some of the most famous ones are those that you can find in the popular "Iroha Karuta" card-grabbing