Usagi Yojimbo DojoBoard

Hmmm, those compositions strangely remind me some of Salvador Dalí's works. A potential title for the latest one could be 'Cottonwool Swans Floating Above A Lake of Metaphysical Quicksilver'.

(Aaaah, Dalí. This man could dare absolutely anything. A real artist.)

Sounds like a good game for advanced pupils, but beginners will shortly run out of words (lack of vocabulary), which would only add to frustration and boredom. I don't think so. Japanese is a syllabic language and there's less than 50 different syllables, so it's quite easy to find new words that f...

Have you tried shiritori ? It's a popular word game in Japan. An example ? usa gi (rabbit) - gi ri (duty) - ri su (squirrel) - su go i (wonderful) - i ke (pond) - ke mo no (beast) - no usagi (hare)... :) Could be a funny way to teach some new vocabulary and check the right spellings ! Actually, ther...

I'm just back from holiday and I'm a little bit surprised nobody noticed this :

Typhoon Usagi hits southern Japan

A typhoon called 'Usagi' could only be a major tempest, I think. Didn't hear if the radio and TV journalists pronounced it correctly.

I can only agree. 4 a.m. is not a time for sarcasm.

Hey friends ! Don't know if you ever heard of this site : http://www.usagiyojimbo.com/ (it's quite confidential, I know), but it has a video of Space Usagi ! It's 3'41'' long, in HQ (well, at least VHS quality ) and therefore so much better than this crappy little extract from Youtube. :lol: (by the...

huh! interesting Cosmo. Um... I like the look of the first one but I'm not understanding the differences in the three options you gave. Are those all my name? so, is there like, 5 different ways to write it? I find the more I look at Japanese written language the more bewildering I am finding it - ...

Morna-san, rather than signing with your katakana name モーナ , why don't you use a name written in kanji ? So much classier. 両名 "two names/both persons", 諸名 "several names" or 師名 "master/teacher name" would fit. They can all be pronounced もろな (mo-ro-na), which to a Japane...

Not bad, but as a Baroque fan I thought that some stuff by Purcell would make a great theme for Jei-san...

Dunno if I ever mentioned it, but "Jei" can't be a native Japanese name. The syllable "je" normally doesn't exist in Japanese - but a nice pun, indeed... :) Japanese people generally render the "u" of "Usagi" as something closer to a [y] than the "oo"...

I think the basic translation would be
日本からの物事 : にほんからのものごと, Nihon-kara no monogoto (Things/affairs from Japan).

If there's a Portuguese character in Usagi Yojimbo, he'd probably be a Jesuit missionary. Not a samurai. :) Still, I've read (in Sansom' History of Japan ) that around 1570, a daimyô called Takayama converted to Christianism for this reason : he had defied a Jesuit, Gaspar Vilela, by engaging a phil...

This could mean that Usagi was closer to 12/13 when he first went off to train with Katsuichi. Or that he was younger than we thought when he and Mariko had the fateful picnic lunch...like around 14/15 (if we assume he was about 10/11 years old when he joined Katsuichi). Of course, we'd all like to...

Another problem is that we don't know exactly how much time Usagi spends alone in self-training after the Dogora School tournament. This could be quite a long time. Self-discipline is hard to acquire. We do actually... issue #2 states he spent two months with Katsuichi after the tournament and then...

That sounds about right. Usagi could have left to train with Katsuichi even earlier, like 8 or 9 years old. I don't think it is actually mentioned just how long he was with Katsuichi...only that it was right up to the point where he begins serving Lord Mifune. This matches up with my own thoughts. ...