Eight
September 12, 2009
by Nao
hachi, yat-tsu, ya
At last, we have put all the numbers from one to ten. As I mentioned yesterday, there are two ways of counting.
The simple and practical: ichi, ni, san, shi, go, roku, nana, hachi, ku (kyū), jū.
More colloquial: hito-tsu, futa-tsu, mit-tsu, yot-tsu, itsu-tsu, mut-tsu, nana-tsu, yat-tsu, kokono-tsu, tō.
The Japanese yao yorozu means not only 8 million but also countless. Animism in Japan claims that there are myriads of gods and deities, saying yaoyorozu no kami.
A similar usage is yaoya or a grocery store. The yao means 800 and the ya means store.
- Draw the stroke on the left. By putting the tip of the brush along the left side of the stroke, you can make it look like a sharp edge. Make it narrower at the end.
- Draw the stroke on the right. You can make the hem-like ending by spreading the brush.
