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Learn Japanese and about Japanese Culture with JapanesePod101.com! Today Chigusa and Yoshi join us for the second installment of animals and their Japanese meanings. In this lesson, we take our time covering many more animals and for the first time, insects! This lesson has a little bit of everything, even Yoshi singing. You don’t want to miss today’s installment of Japanese Culture Class.



This entry was posted on Saturday, May 27th, 2006 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Japanese Culture Classes . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

29 Responses to “Japanese Culture Class #18 - Animals and their Meanings Part II”

JapanesePod101.com says:

皆さん、we hope you enjoy today’s installment of Japanese Culture Class. :grin: Have a great weekend! :grin:

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Peter says:

皆さん、hope everyone is enjoying the weekend. :grin:

Sakuraさん、can you please help with the きつねうどん・そば/たぬきうどん・そば (kitsune udon・soba/tanuki udon・soba) I remember you said something about the tanuki coming from 種・たね・tane (seed) 抜き・ぬき・nuki (without) and that the ね・ne was lost over time, but please help!

よろしくお願いいたします。 :grin:

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usagi says:

Very interesting! Thanks again, I really enjoy the culture tid-bits :lol: :lol:

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bakaneko says:

I’m very curious as to what Chigusa meant when she said “erase all your aura?”

Exactly, how do you do that???

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Daniel Beck says:

Chigusaさん、

Yeah, I agree with bakanekoさん。Please tell us how one “erases” ones aura. :smile:

Peterさん、

What was the name of that song? “Old Angzine”? :lol:

Yoshiさん、

We learned so much about you today! Who knew you were lovely? :lol:

-Daniel

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Hugo says:

Greeting to everyone, I have the same question about the aura, ¿can be erase? Great podcast as always! :razz:

Speaking about energies, I need a recharge, the 7 of june I have a japanese test…. help! :shock:

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Liz says:

I loved Yoshi’s singing of Aka Tonbo, though I wish it could have been longer! I would love to have a folk song lesson, because songs could be a great way to learn Japanese because the words are slower than in speech! Think about it! :cool:

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Laura says:

Oh Peter, you’re so funny.
“Foxes. They don’t just eat cabbages.”

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Peter says:

Usagiさん、Sakuraさん is hording all the good culture stuff, but she should be around shortly. Get ready for some good stuff! :grin:

Bakanekoさん、yes, I’m also puzzled! Much like the dragon fly charm spell Chigusa knows, I don’t know exactly how this works either. :wink: We’ll find out next time we see Chigusa.

Danielさん、I have 8 million New Yorkers ready to back me up on my pronunciation. :wink: And nice to see that you spelled it right too!

Hugosann, we’re looking into it! :wink: As for your test, 朝飯前! You can do it! Please let us know how you do. :grin:

Lizさん、funny you should ask about that. Sakuraさん has been asking to do one! :grin:

Lauraさん、pesky, and at the same time adorable foxes, they’re always after the cabbage. :wink:

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bakaneko says:

Peter さん, Chigusa さん,

I would be much appreciated if Chigusa さん would release an instructional video on the art of erasing one’s aura as well as her expertise in the maki-maki dance of ほんぼ hypnotism. :lol:

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Peter says:

馬鹿猫(bakaneko - just in case you were wondering about the Kanji :wink: ), know that is an idea for a videocast, something we’ve been neglecting! Great idea! Let’s see what we can do. :grin:

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Sierra says:

I wanna hear Yoshiさん sing more, too. In fact, all our Japanese members seem to have great voices. I’m looking forward to that lesson!

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Laura says:

:lol: Peter-さん.
Speaking of kitsune, why is the fox statue in the pdf wearing a red napkin?
ねこがいちばんすきです =^.^=

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Sophie says:

You’ll learn a lot about tanukis if you watch the movie Pompoko, (平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ, Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko), from Isao Takahata, which is both funny and deep, centered on their talents and their fight to protect their habitat from deforestation.

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Daniel Beck says:

Peterさん、

You can take your 8 million New Yorkers, and I’ll take the rest of the English speaking world. I think we can take you. :twisted:

Even better than your “Old Angzine” (Auld Lang Syne for the rest of us) was every time you said “dawg”. :wink:

I love it!

-Daniel B

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Jun says:

Peter-san mentioned the “dog law” and I remember watching a program about the Tokugawa’s on TV. It mentioned a funny story about 2 farmers burying their dead dogs up in the holy mountain. One farmer complained about this and the other farmer said that He should be lucky that it’s not “horse law”.

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Peter says:

Jun-san, thanks for the story! Yeah, a “horse law” would make it problematic! :wink:

Daniel-san, you’re on! The place will be N.Y., I’ll cover you’re ticket, as it is the gentlemanly thing to do. Please tell the rest of the world the time and place; I’m sure that they’ll meet you there. :lol:
And, BTW, I love dawgs. :wink:

Sophie-san, please look forward to our next bloopers as Yoshi actually did the tanuki drum. :wink: I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.

Laura-san, no sure, but I could go back to the temple and ask! :grin: Maybe sometime this week.

Sierra-san, yes, JapanesePod101.com greatest hits! Very nice idea. :grin:

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Sophie says:

Peterさん,

Waow! I’m certainly looking forward to that! Have you wondered if Yoshiさん was actually a human-shaped tanuki having fun teaching Japanese to foreigners? :razz:

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Courtney says:

すごくかわいいレソン! :grin:
Also, I don’t know if this was mentioned before but there are many of the waving cat statues here in the U.S. as well! Look closely in Japanese restaurants–I think I’ve even seen some in Chinese restaurants–and you can probably find one. :wink:

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Jason says:

Lauraさん、pesky, and at the same time adorable foxes, they’re always after the cabbage. :wink:

At least they’re not like the armadillos who go after the servers.

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クリス says:

クリスと申します。オーストラリア人です。
実は私もセミが好きです!こっちは秋ですから、
「むら雨の
雫ながらや
蝉の声」
多分このはいくを書いたこばやし一茶と言う有名な詩人もよく虫に哀れんだ。

Also, I really like Yoshi’s theory about Tanuki Ramen! Since Tanuki’s used to turn leaves into money in order to buy food — its sort of the same logic, its ramen that’s actually quite cheap that seems to be more expensive. I’ll run it by my friends as well and see what they think :wink:

それでは、よろしくお願いします!
クリス

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René says:

狐の嫁入り (kitsune no yomeiri, lit: “foxes’ wedding”) is a fun (but old-fashioned?) way to say “sunshowers” in Japanese, because it was believed that foxes got married on days like those.

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Sakura says:

Sorry for the late response, Peter.
There seems to be many stories about kitsune udon/soba and tanuki udon/soba. But widely believed reasons seem to be as follows.
Kitsune: (as Chigusa said) because deep-fried tofu is supposed to be fox’s favorite food.
Tanuki: (1) comes from “tanenuki” (without ingredients [just batter]), and “ne” was dropped along the way; (2) (as Yoshi said) because batter is pretending to be tempura, and tanuki is known for tricking people.

Also, in Tokyo, “kitsune” is udon/soba with deep-fried tofu and “tanuki” is udon/soba with tempura batter, but I heard that in Osaka, “kitsune” is udon with deep-fried tofu and “tanuki” is soba with deep-fried tofu. So be careful :wink:

I found an interesting survey on kitsune/tanuki udon and soba (in Japanese):
http://weekly.freeml.com/chousa/kitutanu01.html

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AP says:

I seem to be having trouble downloading the audio file. It takes a long time to start, then registers as ‘Done’ even though nothing had been downloaded. Hope this can be fixed. Thanks very much.

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AP says:

Oops, sorry, the download is working now (3rd try!).

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bob says:

omg my skirt fell down :oops:
wow sweetb :roll:

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Fabio Nozoy says:

This I heard from my oditchan: Kitsune dodges the person, ride the person back and make the him get lost… it’s an evil animal :twisted:

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亀井 says:

I’ll have to confess to having tried the Yamaguchi Method of capturing dragonflies many years ago when I lived in Japan. Hmm, also stateside, come to think of it. The erasing one’s aura part does work. I used to think about submarines. Seemed to work most of the time. Had to get rid of all aggravation, impatience, etc. Or it did not work. Or so it seemed The hypnotism part never worked for me. What did work was coming up behind them while they were on the clothesline, going submarine, and moving really slowly. At the last movement, a matter of centimeters, strking quickly to get both wings on one side between the thumb and forefinger, then getting a hold of the thorax to prevent him from damaging himself and from biting me. Some were pretty big. Then I would typically release them. This also worked for cicadae, bees, lizards, etc.
If I had to choose, the dragonfly and cicada seem to come to mind foremost. The American cicada is small and boring compared to the Japanese one…
亀井

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Ukiyou says:

Wow! I wish I knew Chigusa-san’s dragonfly catching method when I was little! I used to catch fireflies the hard way: grabing them by their tails! Had to be swift.

I wish we had some pictures on this lesson notes, like on the previous lesson!

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