Some backstory: I bought this shirt at the Ghibli Museum back before I learned to read Japanese. The picture on the shirt is a portrayal of how Miyazaki organized which color of paint to use for each of his drawings. Each code corresponds to a color. When I bought it I figured the words were super obscure, but I realized recently that they aren’t at all! Thought the beginners might enjoy some practice
What a neat shirt! I was able to read nearly all of the words, but I didn’t know ヒゲ, whiskers! I wasn’t used to seeing words like 鼻 (nose) in hiragana, but I was still able to read them, luckily. I was also able to finally see something use 車内, which I thought was a super specific word when I learned on WK. Thanks for sharing!
The only word I didn’t know was しま・しまもよう, which is apparently a striped pattern. In kanji that’s 縞模様. I know 模様 so I could tell it was indicating a pattern, but I didn’t know what pattern. I think previously I’d only seen 水玉模様 (polka dots), though I couldn’t remember the Japanese and literally just tried both 水模様 and 玉模様 before giving up and looking it up in English.
That’s a cool t-shirt. love that you are starting to understand things which were once indecipherable !
I ended up not buying anything at the Ghibli museum, because it was so expensive ! think the exchange rate was particularly bad at the time to add to the pain