粉雪 powder snow apparently this is also the name of an old song? I heard it for the first time the other day and it was a nice ballad type thing. I don’t remember the name of the band though, it was a lot of katakana
Hello everyone
This weeks word brought to you by a very unique kind of permanent stain.
Ink
墨/インク (it’s usually kana but I like the kanji)
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墨汁 ( ぼくじゅう) ink (used in school bottles for example)
雪舟 等楊 is a 墨絵 artist who painted this:
That looks really cool. I picked ink as the word this week because I’m trying to get started in traditional illustration with ink as a watercolor mix. I think that medium is sometimes called ink wash.
I love ink drawings like that! They are so striking, and the skill to not mess up on the whole page is so impressive. I hope you enjoy the course!
入れ墨 いれずみ tattoo. I know it’s low hanging fruit, but it’s the first thing I think of when it comes to 墨.
Those paintings look so cool!! I hope the class goes well and you can learn a lot form him!
It’s not low hanging fruit, it’s pretty common in English to call tattoos ink as a kind of slang or shortening. I don’t think I’ll ever get a tattoo but it’s kind of cool to have something permanently part of you.
Hullo again,
This week’s word is going to be … be …be…
echo
響
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