Japanese Hiragana

Hiragana syllables developed from Chinese characters. Hiragana was originally called onnade or 'women's hand' as were used mainly by women and men wrote in kanji and katakana. By the 10th century, hiragana was used by everybody. The word hiragana means "ordinary syllabic script".

In early versions of hiragana there were often many different characters to represent the same syllable; however the system was eventually simplified so that there was a one to one relationship between spoken and written syllables. The present orthography of hiragana was codified by the Japanese government in 1946.


In column the rōmaji appears on the left, the hiragana symbols in the middle and the kanji from which they developed on the right. There is some dispute about which kanji the hiragana developed from.

Blog Questionnaire

Q.1 How many links do you have?
All my friends answered more than 10 links.

Q.2 Do you use Wikipedia?
The majority of people in this class answered "Yes".

Q.3 How do you get pictures?
10 friends used “Google”.

Q.4 How many blog friends do you have?
My friends average 10 friends.

Q.5 What is your favorite topic?
6 friends answered “Movie”, 2 friends answered “New Zealand”.

Q6. What kind of topic do you want to write in your blog next?
Some friends say "dream".

Q7. How often did you leave your comments to your friend's blog?
Most friends say "Not so often".

Q8. How often do you see your blog?
My friends average twice per week.

Blog Ranking of Other Class

I'd like to introduce the best three blogs!!!

No.1... Honey Bee
In this page, there is a lot of good pictures and it is very simple, but full of useful information about each topic.

No.2... Sharks In My Mouth
This blog was not so colorful, but it is easy to read. There is interesting information that I don't know, so I chose this.

No. 3... Yellow Backpack Man KT☆彡
If you want to know about transportation in New Zealand, this blog help to get many valuable information.

Blog Ranking

NO.1 Goat In Sheep's Clothing
This blog is pretty simple, but it is full of information and pictures. So you can understand easily.




NO.2 Ka2's Blog
There is a lot of pictutures and links. If you want to know sightseeing spot in New Zealand, this blog help to get many valuable information.




NO.3 Living By Myself
Have you watch the movie "Death Note"? It is Japanese movie and it also comes from comic. i also write about that. If you never watch the movie, take a look and watch it!

Volcanoes of New Zealand

New Zealand has two islands. There is volcano where is north island because of Pacific plate and India-Austria plate strike at east side of north island and it makes volcano at west side. Japan also has volcano but Taupo volcanic region has not only typical volcano of island model as Japan but also four volcanoes center in middle and stability volcano in north and south.
Taupo volcanic region is the best active spot in New Zealand. It is twenty from forty kilometers in width but length is two hundreds forty kilometers! This region is classified five areas and there is called Okataina, Maroa, Rotoruacaruta, Tongariro and Taupo in north order.

Autumn Festivals

Jidai festival is held annually in Kyoto on October 22. It was first held in 1895. The Jidai festival is one of Kyoto's three great festivals now famous. The festival held the transfer of the capital to Kyoto in 794, the 1100 years that it remained the capital until it was moved to Tokyo, and the finishing of the Heian Jingu Shrine where the procession end. The procession composed seven period and eighteen lines. It begins with the Meiji Restoration, corresponding with the end of the Kyoto capital in 1868, back to the founding of the capital with characters from the Heian period.

Movies

I saw many movies during in summer vacation and those movies are really fun. Among the movies I recommend you Spider-Man and Death Note. You know, these movies were made from comics. Comics are read and liked many people, so the movies were a smash hit.

First, I will talk about ''Spider-Man''. Peter Parker(Tobey Maguire), Harry Osborn(James Franco), and Mary Jane Watson(Kirsten Dunst) visit a genetics laboratory at Columbia University with their high school class. While taking photos in the laboratory, Peter is bitten on the hand by a genetically engineered spider. When he awake next morning, marvelous eyesight and physical strength were equipped on the body. In addition, gossamer was able to dash out from the wrist, and to scramble the wall only with the tip of a finger. Peter decides to enter a wrestling tournament to get money to buy a car and impress Mary Jane. He won, but he is cheated out of the tournament money. In retaliation he allows thief to escape with money. He use the power for his interested, but his uncle Ben killed by thief who was allowed by Peter. He felt cost of power. Afterword, on graduating school, he decides to use his abilities to fight injustice, and then Spider-man was born.






The second movie that I want to tell you is ''Death Note''. It is Japanese movie and it also comes from comic. Yagami Light is an intelligent young man who resents the crime in the world. 　His life is change when he discovers a mysterious notebook "Death Note", lying on the ground. The Death Note's instructions say that if a human's name is written in it, that person shall die. When he meet owner of the Death Note, named Ryuk, Light decide to become "the God of the New World" by passing his judgment on those he thinks to be evil or who get in his way. A Death Note can kill any human whose name is written in it. All Death Notes are governed by the same rules determining the extents. Soon, the number of deaths of reported criminals catches the attention of the ICPO and a mysterious detective known only as L. And then Light and L are started brain battle for their justice.