25 June 2009 Japanese Signage Then and Now
Took pictures of these two signs relatively close together while wandering around Kyoto one day a while ago before I started geo-encoding everything, so all I am left with is the geographically context-less images themselves and an unfortunate predilection for run-on sentences.
Genbo asked me how to read this sign when he saw me preparing this post. He is now very enthusiastic about reading, and he can read most hiragana and katakana in Japanese. All that leaves him with are two-thousand odd kanji. Anyway, when I answered that I couldn’t read it (no one this century can!), he looked up at me sweetly and said “Daddy, can’t you read Japanese?”
