Browsing the blog archivesfor the day Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

Side or Around

ata-ri, hen, be The sides of polygons are called “hen” in Japanese. If you count the sides of a polygon, it goes like ippen, nihen, sampen, yompen (shihen), gohen, roppen (rokuhen) and so on. Atari and shūhen mean the neighborhood or the vicinity. These words express refreshing places. The waterside is mizube. The seaside is [...]