RCA Nipper dog on the roof
Very very many
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 19 Jul 2018, 19:35,
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"I'd like 75 dogs please?"
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 19 Jul 2018, 20:28,
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"And what would sir like to drink?"
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 19 Jul 2018, 20:51,
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The dogness is tremendous.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 19 Jul 2018, 22:39,
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Kurashiki Piggy Bank Museum
Okayama, Chugoku - bottom left of the main island of Japan.
(Apologies, didn't mean to intrude on your posting - it's just that I can read the Kana, and thought I could add info)
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Apparently it's a dog museum on the left
A piggy bank museum on the right and an antique shop in the middle, all owned by the same people and under one woof.
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 20 Jul 2018, 6:08,
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Toys too
The left-most part says
2."DOGS MUSEUM"
1."JAPANESE TOY MUSEUM"
The numbers refer to 1st and 2nd floor - what we call the ground floor is floor one.
In another photo - perhaps older - the second one is "CHARACTER MUSEUM", but that's probably due to a poor translation; I'm pretty sure they mean toys. The loan-word "Kya-ra-ku-taa" can refer to toy/cartoon type characters like Buzz Lightyear etc.
And yeah, the right-hand part says
2. Piggy Bank(s) Museum (in Kanji and English)
1. "An-tii-ku-ma-ru" (katakana), antique mall.
It appears to sell coca-cola, trombones, and plants.
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Actually, just look on their website
"Sanyodo antique mall, Piggy Bank Museum, Dog Museum and Toy Museum are so many rare items we put! You can enjoy Japanese subculture “Kawaii”."
Each of the three museums costs 300 yen, which is about two quid. (Easy maths if you're used to thinking in US dollars, 'coz 100 yen is $1 more or less. Just take off the zeroes, so like, 5400円 = $54 close enough)
Anyway -website, https://sanyo-do.com/
You can click the tabs on the top, and just scroll down a bit on each one for English; the tabs are "Home", "Antiques", "Piggy Bank museum", "Dogs Museum", and "about" (address, map, contact, etc.)
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BUT HE CAN READ THE KANA!
CAN YOU READ THE KANA? WELL, CAN YOU?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 20 Jul 2018, 17:25,
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It's Japanese, actually.
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Oysdgp there's nothing to smile ABOUT, Fri 20 Jul 2018, 19:01,
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Japanese
Kana are symbols, from all 3 Japanese "alphabets".
It's phonetic.
Hiragana is like, "a ee oo eh oh, ka kee koo ke ko". Limited noises, see? no "L", hence "Waiter, this chicken is rubbery" etc. Hiragana are quite curvy. あ, い, う, え, お
Katakana has the exact same noises. They are quite pointy, sharp shapes. ア, イ, ウ, エ, オ
Kanji is the little weird picture things, like 車 is a car. Kinda looks like one from above, right? But that's a simple example, most look nothing like anything much.
Kanji for verbs and (most) nouns, hiragana for the misc shit (like conjugation and articles, "is", "on", "it", "the"), and katakana for English stuff, loan words. Mostly.
Pretty much any sentence in Japanese uses all three of those alphabets.
Like,
My name is Fred.
私 は フレッド です
"私" is Watashi, "me", Kanji.
"は" is the particle thing, "wa", meaning "this is the subject". Hiragana.
"フレッド" is Fred, literally Fu-re-do, and because it's English, it's in Katakana.
"です" is just Desu, "it is", and back to Hiragana.
OK, so 3 alphabets seems a bit complicated, but on the bright side, there's a very limited number of actual sounds.
Almost everything you say in Japanese is a double-entendre.
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