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Authors: Eleanor Coerr
Mieko and the Fifth Treasure (7 page)
Many Japanese characters still look almost like what they mean. “Mountain” looks like a mountain:
And “tree” looks something like a tree:
Other words, like “friendship,” are more complicated. The everyday way to write “friendship” is like this:
When painted with a brush, the word-picture looks like this:
This is how the word-picture looked when Mieko put her feelings for Yoshi into the prizewinning brushstrokes.
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