To Come
December 8, 2009
ku-ru, ko-nai, ki-ta, rai
Ku-ru is the verb “to come.” Ko-nai or ki-masen is “not to come.” Ki-ta is “came.” Ku, ko, and ki are verb conjugations.
Rai means “to come” or “to come from.”
When somebody very famous comes to Japan, the event is reported as rainichi. US President Barack Obama’s visit to Japan was one of the recent rainichi events.
Ganrai means originally. Yurai is the origin of something, or the derivation of something.
- Draw the horizontal stroke.
- Draw the dot on the left.
- Draw the dot on the right. These two dots are between horizontal lines.
- Draw the longer horizontal line.
- Draw the vertical line.
- Draw the sweeping stroke from the center to the lower left. Make it thinner at the end.
- Draw the sweeping stroke from the center to the lower right. Make it bolder at the end.




