Seihan Mori, chief Buddhist priest at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, writes the Chinese "mitsu", meaning "congested" or "dense", as the character was selected as the single best kanji symbolising the ...

Who invented kanji? The truth remains a mystery. Yet a legend from a neighboring land tells of an ancient sage named Cangjie ...

A file picture taken on December 12 shows Seihan Mori, the chief priest of Kyoto's famous Kiyomizu temple, displaying his caligraphy of a kanji (or Chinese character), "Kizuna" meaning "bond", which ...

One of the most intimidating things about learning Japanese is the writing system. There are three different sets of characters you’ll need to become proficient in, and while two of them, hiragana and ...

It has been a taxing year for many in Japan and the character “zei”, which refers to taxes, has been chosen by the public as the kanji character that best represents 2023. Kanji are Chinese characters ...

Kanji Character Of The Year 2023: The temple's head priest, Seihan Mori, reproduced it with a huge brush on a white washi paper canvas. Japan's word of the year is the kanji character for “tax”- a ...

The Kanji of the year is “gold” (金). The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation announced [ja] that the kanji of the year 2012 is gold (金) at the Kiyomizu-dera temple on December 12, 2012. The annual ...

Japanese, especially newcomers to Japan, many of the customs and traditions of New Year may seem hard to understand. New Year or oshogatsu is the most important holiday period in Japan for families ...

Japan has chosen the word “war” as the best description for the year 2022 in voting as part of an annual contest. The kanji character “sen”, meaning war or battle, was picked as the single most ...

Japan chose the kanji character for war on Monday as the symbol for 2022 after a year marked by Russia"s invasion of Ukraine and the assassination of former leader Shinzo Abe. The public votes in the ...

Seihan Mori, chief Buddhist priest at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, writes the Chinese "mitsu", meaning "congested" or "dense", as the character was selected as the single best kanji symbolising the ...