珠算数字フォント | Abacus Number Font
珠算で使われている数字に模したフォントを配布します。 伊藤そろばん教室 の”abacus2”をベースにして作りました。 自由に使ってくださいね! This number font is designed to look like the one used in abacus math exams in Japan. It is adapted from “abacus2” by 伊藤そろばん教室. Sample: 86,155268,547-91,233-905,31925,661301,887933,469-75,994 543,173 .ttf のダウンロードはこちら!Download the .ttf here! (284.0 KiB) Read more
Uzaku's Guide to Tile Efficiency - English Translation
This is my full translation of Uzaku-shiki Mahjong Gakushuu Haikouritsu by G Uzaku which I originally made public in April of 2022. I’ve cleaned and revised it since then. Uzaku’s Guide to Tile Efficiency is a textbook on tile efficiency in Japanese mahjong aimed mostly at beginners, but it also covers intermediate and advanced concepts. In the pdf, the table of contents are hyperlinked to the... Read more
Wa and Ga Addendum - Atypical Noun Sentences
← 7. Other Usages and More は Structures Since writing A Guide to Wa and Ga, I’ve come to realize that some usages of が are difficult to explain with the typology given by Noda (野田 1996). Technically, his sentence typology covers most of the sentences I will explain in this chapter, but they function distinctly from typical sentences you will see in Noda’s categories, so I believe they ... Read more
A Guide to Wa and Ga in Japanese
This guide heavily borrows concepts and examples from Hisashi Noda’s (野田尚史) published works『｢は｣ と ｢が｣』(1996) and『文の構造と機能からみた日本語の主題』(1998), including his model for the nine sentence structures and their syntax. The flowchart model is loosely based on the flowchart in these books. Unless explicitly mentioned, all examples I feature here are examples from these two books. If you wish to go further... Read more
A Color Font for Mahjong Tiles | マージャン牌の色付きフォント
A while back when I was working on a translation of a Mahjong textbook, I modified an existing font (archived link) to match the style of the inline tile diagrams in the book. It came out better than I expected, so I decided to release for anyone to use. The tiles have a pink accent, and I think they look pretty neat! If your browser properly supports displaying Opentype-SVG web fonts, you wil... Read more