eribosot<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JapaneseArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JapaneseArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frogs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FrogsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrogsOfMastodon</span></a> </p><p>When worlds collide: as my followers may know, almost every day, I post a) a picture of a species of frog; b) a Japanese art print; and c) a daily blog post in which I translate a sentence or two from a Japanese book.</p><p>In the book, I encountered a most important word: 蛙, pronounced "kaeru" or "kawazu"; in English, "frog."</p><p><a href="https://eribosot.blogspot.com/2025/05/jsll-67-spiders-thread-part-15.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eribosot.blogspot.com/2025/05/</span><span class="invisible">jsll-67-spiders-thread-part-15.html</span></a></p><p>This combines a) and c). So, to include b), here's a Japanese art print of a frog.</p>