So, Japanese Aesthetics is drawing to a close (I’m splashing tears on the keyboard as I type), so I thought, what better than to start a brand new series. Enter: Guest_bloggers. Before you continue with this post, check out more details about what to expect here; after that, make sure you hit that ‘Back’ button [...]
So, occasionally, I allow the geek in me to freely roam the streets. It’s a ‘not-very-often-occurrence’, mostly as Mrs Grumbleweed at No 26 gets real scared as he walks passed, so he’s usually kept under close lock and key. Today though, he was permitted to pull together his favourite kanji of the moment. Sad, he [...]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my introduction to Japanese came from a desire to learn a language comprised of symbols. Nothing more, nothing less. Before stumbling across Japanese, having always been the avid student of romance languages, I had thought that alphabets were ace and symbols were stupid. How could a [...]
Nature, of course, is vast. However, no matter how it is approached, it is impossible to solely write about nature, without turning to the influences of man. Whether for aesthetic improvement, or for less commendable reasons, man’s hand has intervened so expressively in all of the nature of our planet, that that which once enveloped [...]