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雨 AME rain
雲 KUMO cloud
雪 YUKI snow
This is another set in my tenki-shi (weather poems) series. These poems represent precipitation. The Japanese characters for 'rain' makes up part of the characters for 'cloud' and 'snow.'
In this poetry form, English language forms the individual pen strokes which are used to write Japanese kanji. Together these strokes form a single character, defined and described by the English within. Multiple characters placed together in a set form a whole phrase or theme.
One of my goals was to make Japanese readable to people who can't read Japanese, by packing meaning into the visual character. But stuff gets jumbled in the process of language. Every stroke of kanji is made in a certain direction, so for anyone who doesn't know the correct direction, part of the puzzle is sorting out the direction that the English takes and where one word starts and another ends.
I did several of these for my 2011 chapbook 一万個の言葉 (10 000 Words), and I will probably never do any more because they're an incredible pain in the ass
雲 KUMO cloud
雪 YUKI snow
This is another set in my tenki-shi (weather poems) series. These poems represent precipitation. The Japanese characters for 'rain' makes up part of the characters for 'cloud' and 'snow.'
In this poetry form, English language forms the individual pen strokes which are used to write Japanese kanji. Together these strokes form a single character, defined and described by the English within. Multiple characters placed together in a set form a whole phrase or theme.
One of my goals was to make Japanese readable to people who can't read Japanese, by packing meaning into the visual character. But stuff gets jumbled in the process of language. Every stroke of kanji is made in a certain direction, so for anyone who doesn't know the correct direction, part of the puzzle is sorting out the direction that the English takes and where one word starts and another ends.
I did several of these for my 2011 chapbook 一万個の言葉 (10 000 Words), and I will probably never do any more because they're an incredible pain in the ass
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This is so intriguing, and to think that I've never heard of this brings shame upon my family.
But really, keep up the good work.
/R
But really, keep up the good work.
/R