My Name in Japanese, 1987
I was fascinated by Japan as a teenager. Everyone seemed to think they’d buy everything up and kick everyone’s ass. So I played around with learning the Katakana and Hiragana script. I’ve forgotten it all, but this looks like it could be a sign on the Ginza to me. The type is not a font, but drawing with the native DPaint II tools. Very nice tools to draw to a grid. I like it better than the way PhotoShop does grids, though PShop does have guides, which I would have loved on the Amiga.
The colors are even Japanese – garish, but pretty.
I still love Japanese things, though I’m a bit more moderate about it.
Also, my Amiga Pictures 1986-1991 got linked to by Matt Haughey, so now some people are looking at my stuff and bookmarking it in del.icio.us.
That’s kinda cool.
I wanted to, as a batch, change the Creative Commons licenses for the set. Is that possible? I didn’t see it in Organizr.
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Tanya
August 29, 2006 4:07pm
all i want to know is what is loves in Japanese. It happens to be one of my friends names.
Joe Crawford
August 30, 2006 8:26pm
Hi Tanya – probably you need a translation site for that. Try a search for Japanese Translations.
analyn
January 19, 2007 8:30pm
may i know my name in japanese?coz i need a name for my baby girl.
Joe Crawford
January 22, 2007 10:44pm
Hi Analyn —
I think you can use the tutorials here and break up your name like this:
A – NA – RI – N.
Good luck!
Erika Yambao
January 25, 2007 3:45am
what is the meaning of my name in japanise?
Joe Crawford
January 25, 2007 7:14am
Sorry Erika, I don’t know. I bet there are other sites where you can look that up. I’m not an expert on Japanese, unfortunately.
queeny
February 3, 2007 5:33am
hi
idarul farah
February 3, 2007 9:15pm
i want to know
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Ash
February 2, 2011 12:45am
i love the colors! “crawford” would be more like クロフォード (kurofodo) and less like カラポレデ (karaporede, which phonetically sounds like ka-rah-poe-ay-day) though, just going by pronounciation. sorry, i don’t mean to storm here sounding like a know-it-all! i really do like this piece. but just in case a situation should come up where you need to write your name correctly in japanese… now you know 😉
Joe Crawford
February 2, 2011 12:54am
I appreciate the feedback! I fell in love with Japanese characters (without understanding them at all) when I lived in the Philippines as a kid, and much of the animation and comics were from Japan — toys, robots, comics, pen cases, the lot, particularly Voltes V (ボルテスＶ, says wikipedia). I took a shot at writing them as a teenager though without Google I could only go so far. 🙂 Thanks Ash!