{"id":706,"date":"2015-02-13T20:46:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rakugogaku.com\/?page_id=706"},"modified":"2015-04-29T03:01:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:01:29","slug":"%e3%81%ad%e3%81%9a%e3%81%bf%e3%80%80culture-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rakugogaku.com\/?page_id=706","title":{"rendered":"\u306d\u305a\u307f\u3000Culture Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Onomatopoeia:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b><\/b>Japanese has many different onomatopoeia&#8217;s to describe sounds and actions. The onomatopoeia&#8217;s influence is so strong that there is even a word\u00a0to describe silence (\u30b7\u30fc\u30f3) . Onomatopoeia serve as an option for speakers to better describe how they are feeling, an event, or sounds.\u00a0Rakugo stories often poke fun at misunderstandings as a result of using onomatopoeia&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Slight changes in the sound can imply a different meaning for example the two onomatopoeia&#8217;s: (\u30b3\u30ed\u30b3\u30ed) and (\u30b4\u30ed\u30b4\u30ed)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The only difference between the two are the dots in the second onomatopoeia, sometimes used when referring to something rolling down across a surface. When using the two it may give an impression that the first object is smaller than the second object described with \u30b4\u30ed\u30b4\u30ed.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Japanese Puns \u3060\u3058\u3083\u308c\uff1a<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Puns are a play on words that allow for comic relief through the use of words with the same or similar sounds. These are called \u3060\u3058\u3083\u308c in Japanese.\u00a0<em>Rakugo<\/em>\u00a0stories often make use of these puns to introduce a final twist to the story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In the \u306d\u305a\u307f story the pun is an onomatopoeia (\u3061\u3085\u3046) of the\u00a0squeak\u00a0of a mouse, and also the meaning for the word &#8220;medium.&#8221; We see the mouse outsmarting both of the speakers to resolve their conflict with a pun.\u00a0Puns play a significant role in <em>Rakugo. <\/em>They not only to add an element of humor at the end, but also serve as a way to end conflict, misunderstandings, and bring the story to a conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onomatopoeia: Japanese has many different onomatopoeia&#8217;s to describe sounds and actions. The onomatopoeia&#8217;s influence is so strong that there is even a word\u00a0to describe silence (\u30b7\u30fc\u30f3) . Onomatopoeia serve as an option for speakers to better describe how they are feeling, an event, or sounds.\u00a0Rakugo stories often poke fun at misunderstandings as a result of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-706","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakugogaku.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakugogaku.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakugogaku.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakugogaku.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakugogaku.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/rakugogaku.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/rakugogaku.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/706\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakugogaku.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}