{"id":278,"date":"2010-03-25T15:58:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T06:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seanmisen.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2010-03-25T15:58:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T06:58:07","slug":"mike-beesons-fantasy-kanji-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/japanese\/mike-beesons-fantasy-kanji-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Beeson&#8217;s Fantasy Kanji Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend Mike Beeson is visiting Japan.\u00a0 He spent a few days here in Saroma, and did his best to read the Chinese &#8220;kanji&#8221; characters that are used in Japan.\u00a0 Amazingly, while he had no idea what the characters meant, he was able to see them as pictures, and started creating his own meanings, based on what he thought the characters resembled.<\/p>\n<p>I found this perspective refreshing and hilarious.\u00a0 I asked Mike to write down what he thought a kanji <em>should<\/em> mean, based on what he felt it looked like as a visual representation of meaning.\u00a0 Here is the short &#8220;Kanji Guide&#8221; that he created.\u00a0 Let your mouse pointer rest over the image to reveal the actual meaning of the character.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-284\" title=\"oneself\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/trashcan.png\" alt=\"oneself\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-283\" title=\"world\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/alien.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-282\" title=\"large\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/human.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-292 alignnone\" title=\"intercept\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/vikingboat.png\" alt=\"Pursuit Text\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-281\" title=\"matrimony\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/clownmirror.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-307\" title=\"day\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/glassofwater.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-306\" title=\"guy\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/picnictableset.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-305\" title=\"older brother\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/boxwithlegs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-304\" title=\"measure\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/assortedweaponry.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-303\" title=\"well\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/drunkentictactoe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-302\" title=\"one hundred\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dynamitebox.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-301\" title=\"four\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sadbox.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-300\" title=\"round, yen\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/awkwardskislalomsign.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-299\" title=\"sweet\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/benchpress.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-298\" title=\"pleasure\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/kitchen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-297\" title=\"spine\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/snowman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-319\" title=\"reason\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/butterchurn.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What do you think?\u00a0 I&#8217;d be curious to see what those of you with little or no knowledge of kanji think, compared to those who do.\u00a0 I am pretty sure I never could have created this, given the connections I have already made for these ideograms.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \u65e5\u3000glass of water (day) \u5974\u3000picnic table set (colleague, guy) \u5144\u3000box with legs (brother) \u6e2c\u3000assorted weaponry (measure) \u4e95\u3000drunken tic-tac-toe (well) \u767e\u3000dynamite box (one hundred) \u56db\u3000sad box (four) \u5186\u3000awkward ski slalom sign \u7518\u3000bench press (sweet) \u559c\u3000kitchen (pleasure) \u5442\u3000snowman (spine) \u516d\u3000paraplegic (legs) \u706b\u3000paraplegic (arms) \u59fb\u3000clown mirror   (matrimony) \u906e\u3000viking boat   (intercept) \u754c\u3000alien! (world) \u59fb\u3000clown mirror   (matrimony) \u906e\u3000viking boat   (intercept) \u5927\u3000person (large)--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend Mike Beeson is visiting Japan.\u00a0 He spent a few days here in Saroma, and did his best to read the Chinese &#8220;kanji&#8221; characters that are used in Japan.\u00a0 Amazingly, while he had no idea what the characters meant, he was able to see them as pictures, and started creating his own meanings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}