#japanese letters

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Japanese Dimensional Type

The Japanese sculptor and graphic designer Takenobu Igarachi is well-noted for his axonometric type designs. Igarachi is particularly fond of Roman letter forms, but today we are only showing designs based on Japanese characters from his book Takenobu Igarashi A-Z, published in London by Thames & Hudson in 2020.

The Japanese use four different kinds of characters: kanji imported from China; katakana and hiragana invented by the Japanese; romaji, the Roman alphabet from the West. Kanji are ideographs that use about 7000 characters on average. Hiragana are phonetic symbols devised by women of high society around the 7th to 9th centuries consisting of 50 letters. Katagana, a phonetic alphabet  of 50 characters, was invented by Buddhist monks for reading sutra and is made of parts of kanji in simplified form. Comparatively, romaji, or Roman letters used for the Japanese language, is far more simple in shape and structure. In the first two images, Igarachi presents a variety of dimensional Japanese character's.

The last set of images are visualizations of the kanji character hibiki, derived from the Chinese character which means sound, resonance, or echo, representing the corporate philosophy of Igarachi’s client, the Japanese brewing and distilling company Suntory Limited. Working through various morphings of the kanji character, he arrived at what became the Suntory corporate logo. Later, Igarachi made a 3D version utilizing the arch, which was made into a sculpture that adorns the Suntory hall entrance.

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[bombrstompr]

Ombre (オンブレ) 2023

#graffiti #Ombre #オンブレ #Budapest #Hungary #Filatorigát #katakana #japanese letters #manga #Urusei Yatsura #anime

[creamcat69]

APRIL FOOLS!!!!!!!

featuring Rainbow-chan and my persona :3

#april fools #april fools art #goofy art #japanese letters #cat girl #happy girl #anime girl #bootleg cat girl

[weedle-testaburger]

konata is a wlw weeb icon

#personal crap #lucky star #that's a thought though how common is using roman letters on the japanese internet #(or any internet for a language that doesn't use them for that matter)

[nobrashfestivity]

Envelope for postcard series Postcards Commemorating the Crown Prince's Visit to Hokkaidô, a Set of Three Artist unknown, Japanese

Late Meiji era

#japanese art #letters #envelope #postcards

[angeleeku]

Romantic Rose Letter is the most beautiful dress from Angelic Pretty in history 🌹

#angelic pretty #kawaii fashion #lolita fashion #egl #lolita #sweet lolita #jfashion #japanese street fashion #romanticism #romantic fashion #romantic rose letter #coquette #dollette #coquette dollete #dollete aesthetic #hime lolita #hime gyaru #me #angeleeku #princesscore #princess aesthetic

[artemispt]

#the pic without the letters #😳 #I feel like a Victorian lady seeing an ankle #model lando #chin dimple my beloved #monster energy #lando norris #japanese gp 2024 #monster underwear #Lando’s tummy compilation

[shihlun]

Kinuyo Tanaka

- Love Letter

1954

#Kinuyo Tanaka #Love Letter #Masayuki Mori #田中絹代 #恋文 #森雅之 #japanese film #1954

[canis-majoris]

#ukiyo-e #japan #japanese #Edo period #Woodblock print #The Seventh Hour #kimono #Woman Reading a Letter #Utagawa Kuniyoshi

[ctrl-lupin]

wtf is Zeni's badge

#there is so much to unpack here #why is he called senigata #what's going on with his FACE #why did they write in japanese but with roman letters #why is there japanese on the first page but english on the second #'ANIMAL IS FUCK' ??????????? #another beautiful attempt at english by the wonderful folks at tms #thank you for your service. here's a dictionary #inspector zenigata #lupin iii #pink jacket

[bombrstompr]

Ombre (オンブレ) 2023

#Ombre #graffiti #Hungary #Kaszásdűlő #Usagi Yojimbo #katakana #Japanese letters #manga

[juniper-girl]

Love Letterラブレター (Shunji Iwai, 1995)

#love letter #love letter 1995 #shunji iwai #Love Letterラブレター #japanese director #japanese film #japanese movie #grief #memory #memories #movies quotes #film quotes #japanese cinema

[adobe-outdesign]

for the longest time I assumed the Mega EX cards had Japanese lettering on them because it was part of the illustration and therefore couldn't easily be altered. but instead it turns out the original Japanese cards had English lettering on them and they just went the extra mile to keep the effect the same for both audiences

#pokemon #pkmn #pokemon tcg #pokemon cards #alakazam #outdesign posts things #it's probs because I can't read japanese but I like the english version better #there's less letters needed and the letterforms look a lot less bulky than the english ones #might grab this one for my collection at some point

[cinemabywomen]

Love Letter (1953, ‘恋文’ - directed by Kinuyo Tanaka)

#love letter #50s cinema #japanese cinema #directed by women #kinuyo tanaka #female director #cinematography #aesthetic #letterboxd #film community #film aesthetic

[lettersregardingjeeves]

This might be a dumb question but this is my first tumblr read-a-long - what’s the schedule for new installments?

Loved the first email, can’t wait to see more!

What ho, old chap! Sorry about that - I really need to get the calendar together! I’ve been awfully busy and had some trouble with illness in the family, but I will put together a calendar post-haste - and what I can certainly say is that the parts and pieces come in four-day intervals!

#letters regarding jeeves #lrj #jeeves and wooster #I’ll probably change up the time they go out a bit too haha #since I think I set them up when I was still in the Japanese time zone #but if people are cool with the time it DOES go out then I can also just leave it as-is

[gongonstudio]

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