Wednesday, January 31, 2007

English Kanji (英漢字)

It seems improbable, but according to the Japanese magazine Shukan Bunshun (週刊文春), at least one Japanese calligrapher has managed to make English words into Japanese characters- known as kanji.

The calligrapher, one Kunishige Tomomi, calls her work Eikanji (英漢字)- literally English Kanji. Although there are unfortunately no pictoral representations of the her Eikanji work, the concept is intriguing. Read the whole thing.

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