#seal script

A split-screen moment at a green tea shop! It's so cool to see the contrast of seal script and modern script!

茶 means tea, and it's read チャ or サ. For more vocabulary and how tea is talked about in Japanese, see here, and for a cool tea superstition, see here.

I love the spear-like appearance of the top radical here. It's 艹 grass crown, which can be easy to confuse with ⺮ bamboo crown in modern script. For example, 苗 seedling vs. 笛 flute. How easy is it to differentiate in seal script?

a piece i did for school recently, a transcription of a classic hokkien song into seal script (an archaic form of chinese script)

main text:

獨夜無伴守燈下　春風對面吹

十七八歲未出嫁　見著少年家

果然標致面肉白　誰家人子弟

想欲問伊驚歹勢　心內彈琵琶

transliteration (tâi-lô)

to̍k-iā bô phuānn siú-ting-ē; tshun-hong tuì-bīn tshue

tsa̍p-tshit-poeh huè buē tshut-kè; kìnn-tio̍h siàu-liân-ke

kó-jiân piau-tì bīn-bah-pe̍h; siâng ka-lâng tsú-tē

siūnn boeh mn̄g i kiann pháinn-sè; sim-lāi tuânn pî-pê

translation (by me):

a lonely night, companionless, under a dim lamp; a spring breeze blows the other way.

seventeen going on eighteen, and still unmarried; catching a glimpse of a suitor.

truly what a beauty, with a soft white face; from which family do they come from?

thinking of approaching, feeling shy; the strings of the heart are strumming.

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恩寫望春風第一首

ern siá bāng-tshun-hong tē-it-siú

Finally got around to carving a new 도장 for calligraphy and general art use. Had a piece of machine brass to use up and the set of push gravers I made a few weeks ago has been begging for a new project.

Liang Chao Bo

Liang Chao Bo is an alchemist specializing in transmutation, specifically making pills for HRT. His wheelchair has wheels made of blue jade and has the ability to move remotely via runic programming if his hands are full with work.

I tried to take some screen shots and look at seal script and it’s just... VERY DIFFICULT esp if you are like me and know almost no Chinese.

Someone help me I studied Japanese for like 10 years and kanji was always my weakest suit and now we have COMPLETELY DIFFERENT but just similar enough to trip me up characters in an entirely different language and style?! RIP me.