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Thanks again, Takanori.
Sincerely,

Dave Heideman
St. Petersburg, FL

I really appreciate your taking the time to contact me regarding your work.
At the moment I'm not getting a tattoo but plan on using your translation to help promote my freelance illustration & graphic design business. Thanks you very much again.

Chris

Hey Takanori, here is my tattoo.
I told several people at the parlor about your service. To put something on your body for the rest of your life without knowing that it means "Trash Can Lid" or "Dog Taco Pants" is stupid. Why not an ARTIST a few bucks for beautiful calligraphy and total accuracy. Thanks again

John Boyle

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Dear Friend,

Hi, my name is Takanori Tomita.
Are you always fascinated by different cultures especially with Japanese history?

If so, let me explain about the Japanese historical phrase or Japanese saying called "Yo Ji Jyu Ku Go".

"Yo Ji Jyu Ku Go" contains 4 Japanese Kanji symbols and represents idiomatic action, behavior or Japanese moral philosophies.
These phrases are still accepted for everyday use, like in newspapers and ordinary reading matter or most often in a school textbooks.

Especially with scholar, politician and sometimes commentator speak to use them in a usual conversation.

For example, the following "Yo Ji Jyu Ku Go" means,
Fight with one's own shadow, and can be represented like this:

In Japanese, it is pronounced " Gi Shi N An Ki".

Today, there are over two thousand Japanese kanji accepted use in Japan.
Kanji are incredibly beautiful and creative characters.
Like "Yo ji Jyu Ku Go", kanji itself represent meaning in an expressive way.

However, there are also 2 other scripts we use in everyday of our life.
They are called, Hiragana and Katakana.
Hiragana is basically more cursive or rounded way of writing and indicates both the shape and relative simplicity of the scripts.

Have a look at this Japanese saying:

[ Love is a leveler ]

This time, the Japanese phrase is not only KANJI.
So, it is NOT "Yo Ji Jyu Ko Go", because it is not made of 4 kanji symbols.
Although Kanji symbols are used to express the main concept of this phrase, Hiragana is also used to write the grammatical parts of sentence.
They are a subordinate characters.

What sort of phrases are they?

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