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  2. Japanese sound symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The Jaded Network - SFX Sound Effects Translations Online Dictionary from TheJadedNetwork.Com "'Tokyo Year Zero' Gets Under Readers' Skin" by Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered. A review of a novel that uses Japanese phonomime. Japanese Sound effects in Manga and what they mean, originally from www.oop-ack.com (archived copy of the original)

  3. Glossary of Shinto - Wikipedia

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    ' State Shinto ') – Japanese translation of the English term State Shinto created in 1945 by the US occupation forces to define the post-Meiji religious system in Japan. Kokoro (心, lit. ' heart ') – The essence of a thing or being. Kokugakuin Daigaku (國學院大學) – Tokyo university that is one of two authorized to train Shinto priests.

  4. Iroha - Wikipedia

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    The consonant /h/ in Japanese (a voiceless glottal fricative) was historically pronounced as /ɸ/ (a voiceless bilabial fricative) before the occurrence of the so-called hagyō tenko (“'H'-row (kana) sound shift”, ハ行転呼). Due to phonological changes over history, the pangram poem no longer matches today's pronunciation of modern kana.

  5. Japanese phonology - Wikipedia

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    Japanese phonology has been affected by the presence of several layers of vocabulary in the language: in addition to native Japanese vocabulary, Japanese has a large amount of Chinese-based vocabulary (used especially to form technical and learned words, playing a similar role to Latin-based vocabulary in English) and loanwords from other ...

  6. Kotodama - Wikipedia

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    This Japanese compound kotodama combines koto 言 "word; speech" and tama 霊 "spirit; soul" (or 魂 "soul; spirit; ghost") voiced as dama in rendaku.In contrast, the unvoiced kototama pronunciation especially refers to kototamagaku (言霊学, "study of kotodama"), which was popularized by Onisaburo Deguchi in the Oomoto religion.

  7. Suikinkutsu - Wikipedia

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    The sound of a suikinkutsu has its own name in Japanese, called suikin'on. The sounds can furthermore be divided in two sub groups, ryūsuion and suitekion . The ryūsuion is the sound of the first few water drops at the beginning of washing hands.

  8. Kintarō - Wikipedia

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    The relation has also been confirmed in Gin Tama's episode 98 and manga volume 10. Gintoki has its name contain the character for "silver" instead of "gold", and he has silver hair. One of his nemeses, the golden-haired Sakata Kintoki, also made an appearance. In the anime series Otogi Zoshi, Kintaro is one of the main characters.

  9. Zatch Bell! - Wikipedia

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    (Japanese: 金色のガッシュ!!, Hepburn: Konjiki no Gasshu!!, "Golden Gash!!"), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Makoto Raiku. It was serialized in Shogakukan 's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday between January 2001 and December 2007, with its chapters collected in thirty-three tankōbon volumes.