Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable. Japanese has five vowels: a, i, u, e, o. And it has nine consonants. In Japanese, each vowel by itself and a set of a ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

For illustrator and fiber artist Tomoko Kubo, the hiragana lettering system sparked a playful, ongoing series of embroideries ...