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Originally Posted by yyzBegonia
... Kanji is Chinese characters, which are much more complicated than kana. They were used as official name in documents, but on the hull there were just kanas which indicate the pronunciations.
For instance, Shiratsuyu would be written as 白露 (Kanji) in documents, シラツユ (Katakana) would be painted on the side of hull andしらつゆ (Hiragana) would be astern.  |
Ahh yesh... ignorant of me... it's all I can do to remember by own name (??!), therefore, Wikipedia becomes an evil crutch sometimes...
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Originally Posted by Faith
... you'll find more digitally colored pictures on the artist's website:
http://blog.livedoor.jp/irootoko_jr/
An amazing artist. I love how he respects the original quality of the photograph... |
Another "Very ~nice~ find!
