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Since August 8th 2007, I have been residing in Japan.\u00a0 I was in Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture for a year.\u00a0\u00a0 In September 2008 I moved to Saroma Town, Hokkaido, which is Palmer, Alaska’s sister city.\u00a0 This is a blog created to chronicle my time in this country.\u00a0 My main goal is to keep track of the really interesting things that happen here and make observations whenever I have ones that aren’t negative or pointless.\u00a0 I originally planned to update the blog in English weekly, and in Japanese more frequently but the time required to update in two languages that frequently just doesn’t exist.<\/p>\n

Photos of my life as an Assistant Language Teacher and Coordinator for International Relations in Saroma Town, Hokkaido Prefecture can be found at my pbase site<\/a> or my smugmug site.<\/p>\n

The title of this here blog is a pun of sorts. My name is Sean. The shamisen<\/em><\/a> is a traditional three stringed Japanese instrument (the name, incidentally, meaning ‘three strings’). If you replace the ‘sha’ in ‘shamisen’ with my name, Sean, it sounds nearly the same. That is because then articulatory quality of the [n] assimilates to the place of articulation of the [m]. That is, it assimilates from a alveolar nasal to a bilabial nasal when it precedes a bilabial nasal. This can be represented formally via this phonological rule: \/n\/ \u2192 [m] \/ _ \/m\/. Basically, it ends up sounding pretty much exactly the same. If you wanted to reinterpret the meaning of seanmisen<\/em>, I suppose it would mean ‘Sean stringed instrument’ or ‘Sean flavor line’ if you wanted to be very literal with the meaning of the characters. People have called me “seanmisen” before and I didn’t mind the moniker. The domain name was untaken, so here this site is. The title graphic is a visual play on the pun, following the rules <\/span>(top to bottom, and left to right) <\/span>for writing kanji<\/em> , the complex Chinese characters the Japanese use as part of their writing system, to replace \u4e09, the first character of shamisen<\/em>, with Sean. The remaining syllables\/characters are represented by their traditional Kanji. I figured it was a good compromise between the English and Japanese faces of the page. I also couldn’t figure out how to make WordPress dynamically change the image in response to the language the page was being viewed in. So yeah, Seanmisen. I sorta like it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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