Month: August 2023

In my last blog post about the Iroha Karuta I talked about one of the proverbs that is used to illustrate the 9th card in the series, which is “Ri,” (り) the ninth hiragana in the traditional hiragana syllabary. That proverb was, “Richigi mono no ko dakusan.” An honest person [Read more…]

This is the ninth card in the Japanese series of proverb that illustrate the Japanese “alphabet” (or, more correctly, “syllabary’). At least, this card is ONE of the proverbs that illustrate the ninth syllable, “り,” which is pronounced “Ri”. (My other deck of Karuta uses a different proverb to illustrate [Read more…]