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Kata originally were teaching and training methods by which successful combat techniques were preserved and passed on. Practicing kata allowed a company of persons to engage in a struggle using a systematic approach, rather by practicing in a repetitive manner the learner develops the ability to execute those techniques and movements in a natural, reflex-like manner.
猫 neko cat の no GEN 色 iro color 猫 の 色 neko no iro cat GEN color "the cat's (neko no) color (iro)" noun governed by an adposition: 日本 nihon Japan に ni in 日本 に nihon ni Japan in " in Japan" comparison: Y Y Y より yori than 大きい ookii big Y より 大きい Y yori ookii Y than big " big ger than Y" noun modified by an adjective: 黒い kuroi black 猫 neko cat ...
Japanese verbs, like the verbs of many other languages, can be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical function – a process known as conjugation.
100 po: 五百 ipo (500), 五百年 ipoto 2 se (500 years), 五百夜 ipoyo 2 (500 nights), 八百 yapo (800), 三百 mi 1 po (300), 六百 mupo (600), 九百 ko 2 ko 2 no 2 po (900) Used for multiple hundreds in compound numerals. Often used to mean many. 100 mo 1 mo 1: 百日 mo 1 mo 1 ka (many days) Used for non-multiple hundred and for the ...
Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide.
The Kokin Wakashū is an early (c. 900) anthology of waka poetry which fixed the form of Japanese poetry. [1]Waka (和歌, "Japanese poem") is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature.
The Japanese Wikipedia (ウィキペディア日本語版, Wikipedia Nihongoban, lit. ' Japanese version of Wikipedia ') is the Japanese edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-source online encyclopedia.
The exact modern koku is calculated to be 180.39 litres, 100 times the capacity of a modern shō. [11] [d] This modern koku is essentially defined to be the same as the koku from the Edo period (1600–1868), [e] namely 100 times the shō equal to 64827 cubic bu in the traditional shakkanhō measuring system.