This is the twelfth in the series of Japanese Iroha Karuta playing card deck. Both of my karuta decks use the same proverb to illustrate the twelfth syllable in the “Iroha” hiragana syllabry. However, the twelfth syllable poses Iroha Karuta deck designers with a bit of a problem. That is [Read more…]
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 in the old Japanese syllabary, the syllable “nu”. That proverb was about a lotus growing in [Read more…]
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 take some pics of it to post on Liketu), the US Marine base, and… [Read more…]
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