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Iroha One is now available for your feedback (Patreon)

Published:
2025-04-19 14:00:50
Imported:
2026-06

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[See the end of this post for the link!]

So this week, I wanted to start looking at the part of the project that aims to incentivise learning kana. Even if you're well versed with kana, please give it a look as you'll find there's more than just learning kana here.

Much of the time on this way was spent wrangling the page to display the text in a manner I'm happy with. It's not all there, yet. The Japanese fonts still need selecting, with the exception of the one font that's currently in place -- you'll know it when you see it! It took a while to get that working for the site. I had to track down an obscure program to convert the font into something that you wouldn't need to download.

Once finalized, Kotoha and Inari's sections will have their own main fonts. Kotoha's will use a font that is as similar to Japanese text book fonts as I can find -- I can't use the same one that text books use because it's seriously expensive! We're talking 100,000 JPY range! These fonts are not for mere mortals such as me! But I'll find something. Inari's font will lean towards a more stylistic handwritten font -- that'll be easier to find and more challenging to read.

You'll also notice that there's no furigana here. This will be true for the majority of Iroha pieces. The only kanji likely to feature furigana will be those that are lesser known and not included in the kanji that are generally taught at schools. This will give an experience much closer to what Japanese get when they pick up a book.

Anyway, for now, this first Iroha piece is available at this link. It has not yet been given an index page. Based on your feedback and suggestions, I hope to include more in the future, so expect this first version to undergo some changes. When that happens, I'll let you know!

For example, would you find it useful to know the JLPT N level of the highlighted kanji (sometimes there could be several) -- for example the kanji Kotoha looks at is JLPT N5. It is taught to Japanese in Grade 3. I expect the On and Kun readings will be useful too. They are not currently included. I am still thinking of a good design for them.

Please do let me know your opinions!

Have a great weekend.

(Next will be lesson 12 and the following week maybe another Textbook Example, I'll let you know!)

https://moonrunesaga.bansama.com/603d24ml/jsa7rdhp/premium/iroha/hiragana-a.html

Comments

Dusk

Been catching up on the last few weeks Typo "so he poke and prod.", missed can The JLPT level and reading could be useful, though I've heard there's quite a few readings for some common Kanji, so I'm not sure how useful trying to remember that is? Though would be good to have what to look it up under. Tried reading the Japanese sections with a dictionary. For Kotoha's Kanji Corner, I think you're saying that it looks like a woman under a roof which seems to mean safety, but I don't understand the part relating it back the the hiragana あ. I was also wondering why the use of katakana here? Had a lot more trouble with the last section lol

Moonrune Saga
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Seems I used the old version of the Miyuki letter and not the corrected one. I'll fix that when I have a chance (might be a few days -- I've got to spend a fair amount of the next few days moving furniture U___U). Thanks for pointing it out! If you spot typos, etc., in other lessons let me know! Always appreciate having them pointed out, as I can miss them myself even after several re-reads. Kanji can have a lot of different readings, yes. I'll have to think about whether to just include a couple of readings or at least just the readings taught at the appropriate level. You'll never remember them all, unless you have a photographic memory or something! But each can certainly be used to help look up kanji in a dictionary, along with it's stroke order, radicals, and a few other methods. The bit about hiragana "a" coming from that kanji is literally that. When the hiragana script was created each of the symbols was taken from a kanji. This one, to go into specifics, is taking from how 安 was written in a cursive style. After a slight iteration it is simplified down to the point it becomes あ. The top line of あ is the "roof" part of 安 the curly part at the bottom is basically 女. Can you tell me if the font for あ and 安 loaded correctly? It seems to be far too slow on my end, so I might end up having to replace with images. I had to rule out SVGs for them, all attempts for that failed. If they loaded correctly, you'll see little numbers where the stroke starts. If it didn't, the font looks squarish without the little numbers.