This is the sign for Edogawabashi-dori, or Edogawabashi Street, which you can see behind it.
The sign also includes Shinjuku's city emblem in the upper right. The emblem was established in 1967 and it is actually a rhombus-shaped form of the kanji "Shin (新)," which means "New" and is also one of the kanji for our city name, Shinjuku (新宿).
I only learned regretably a small collection of kanji during my two years in Gifu-ken but I was good at Hiragana at one time....
ReplyDeleteA beautiful and fascinating sign! Please, be patient and try always to explain your different types of characters to us, I find it very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI remember my Dad telling me how he used to get hopelessly lost in Tokyo... :-) This is brilliant and thank you for the explanations.
ReplyDeleteThat symbol of Shinjuku would make a good “wire puzzle.”
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of puzzles, I’d hate to tell you how long it took me to figure this one out. I do love puzzles, on occasion, but this one was a doozie. I guess it just wasn’t where I expected it to be.
ReplyDeleteYou didn’t have much “wiggle room” behind you, when you took this photo, did you, Kaori? That alone makes yours an exceptional photo.
really nice street sign :)
ReplyDelete実話、にほんっごのかんじをべんきょしています。 ＾０＾ haha, but the words can be quite confusing, esp. when you also know some chinese words. I get them jumbled up.
ReplyDeleteElegant street sign. (Would have fit well into Lesley's Sign meme.)
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