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The earliest work of Japanese literature to be translated into English was the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, a collection of waka compiled by Fujiwara no Teika in the 13th century. . Frederick Victor Dickins (1835-1915), a medical officer in the Royal Navy, translated and published the work anonymously in the March 1865 issue of the Chinese and Japanese Repository.
Nganga mask, from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. A nganga (pl. banganga or kimbanda) is a spiritual healer, diviner, and ritual specialist in traditional Kongo religion. [1]
In this table, The first cell in each row gives a symbol; The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias.
Among English speakers, "manga" has the stricter meaning of "Japanese comics", in parallel to the usage of "anime" in and outside Japan. The term " ani-manga " is used to describe comics produced from animation cels.
Tanka consist of five units (often treated as separate lines when romanized or translated) usually with the following pattern of on (often treated as, roughly, the number of syllables per unit or line):
Linguee is an online bilingual concordance that provides an online dictionary for a number of language pairs, including many bilingual sentence pairs. As a translation aid, Linguee differs from machine translation services like Babel Fish, and is more similar in function to a translation memory.
Kaitiakitanga is a New Zealand Māori term used for the concept of guardianship of the sky, the sea, and the land.A kaitiaki is a guardian, and the process and practices of protecting and looking after the environment are referred to as kaitiakitanga.
When English-language licenses for a series are held by publishers in different regions, this is distinguished by the following abbreviations: NA for North America, UK for the United Kingdom, SG for Singapore, [n 1] HK for Hong Kong, and ANZ for Australia and New Zealand. Where only one publisher has licensed a series, the region is not indicated.