Three Japanese place names
This was a commission for client who spent a wonderful year living in Japan and wanted to remember the place where she lived.
She lived in the small town of ๆณขๆน Namikata,
which is in the municipality of ไปๆฒป Imabari,
which is in the prefecture of ๆๅช Ehime.
Japanese addresses are written with the largest area first (the prefecture), and then by order of decreasing size.
Traditional Japanese writing is from top to bottom and then right to left.
I wrote this in the traditional way, so the prefecture ๆๅช Ehime is on the right and is read first, and moving to the left is the municipality ไปๆฒป Imabari and then finally the small town ๆณขๆน Namikata.
I was pleased to meet her because I have never met anyone who has lived in Ehime before. It's a very rural prefecture in Shikoku (one of Japan's main islands).
