Comments on: Mixing It Up With Japanese Wordplay

By: SaraWyatt

SaraWyatt — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:11:00 +0000

OH! Thank you! :D

By: Ling Min

Ling Min — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:57:00 +0000

that’s shiritori

By: .k3NiCHi

.k3NiCHi — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 02:51:00 +0000

*Washi no shiwa
*竹薮焼けた
*Takeyabu yaketa

Proofread! =]

By: .k3NiCHi

.k3NiCHi — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 02:45:00 +0000

The beauty of the Japanese syllabary is that there is never any question of how to pronounce things because each mora is always pronounced the same way. So unlike most English palindromes, (almost) ALL Japanese palindromes are true palindromes by your definition, are they not? わしのしわ is wa-shi-no-shi-wa both ways…

By: Jonadab

Jonadab — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:16:00 +0000

These are really anagrams (albeit, a particularly constrained type of anagram). True palindromes are not only spelled but also pronounced the same forward and backward.

By: Shollum

Shollum — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:48:00 +0000

You definitely shouldn’t forget shiritori! It’s a great way to build your vocabulary and keep it used.
For those that don’t know, shiritori is a game where one person says a word and then the next person has to say a word that starts with the syllable that the previous one ended with. This continues until someone can’t think of a word.

Japanese related forums may have games of shiritori that you can participate in (the main difference being that they never end).