haru no ogawa

[arethinn]

Oh, good. I am glad to learn that haru is "spring" and not "stream". See, something about the word struck me. Like it might be good for a name. Even though I recently found out that my rising sign is actually Aquarius, it's about 26 degrees so and very close to Pisces, and I've long thought of myself as Pisces rising... the opposite of my sun sign, Virgo. I'm also an "autumn" colour scheme, with my warm tone skin and naturally reddish brown hair. Autumn and winter jive well with me energetically. Etc. So I thought... "spring" would be an amusingly paradoxical name... perhaps a way to claim the things I (think I) am not.

Haru. I don't know. It just sounds good. Even though my favourite initial letters are J and M and I like the "sh" or "th" sound to be in names.

I was also trying to make sure it wasn't inflected in some way (like some languages have possessive case, etc) and thus didn't need to be changed back to a root form of some kind.

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[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

Some random bits from my dictionary:

The most obvious one(s) are:
koharu - early autumn or what we call Indian summer, harvesty weather.
koharubiyori - similar; not sure precisely what difference is.
haruichiban - first storm of spring.
harukaze - spring breezes.
harusaki - beginning of spring.
harutakenawa - sort of a Japanese "Spring is busting out all over", "Spring's really sprung, woohoo" kind of thing, if I understand it right.

Just more words to think about and play with.

[arethinn]

koharu - early autumn or what we call Indian summer, harvesty weather.

That's pretty amusing, given that I was born August 23rd... still summer in this part of California, since our "Indian summer" lasts til near Halloween most years, but I think you get what I'm getting at.

I still like just "Haru". It's sticking somehow. We'll see if I still feel the same way about it tomorrow, and more importantly, if I don't shed it inside of a week or a month. That's really the acid test. "caterpillar girl" has stood for an amazingly long time, considering.

[danielmalloy.livejournal.com]

Nope, nouns are pretty clean in Japanese, not even plural/singular. You gotta conjugate your adjectives, which is weird though. By far the weirdest thing in Japanese is the counting systems; they have different counting systems depending on what it is you're counting: people, animals, cylindrical objects, thin objects etc.

/remembering my Japanese 101 and 201 courses...