April 2020

Words. Aren’t they strange and wonderful. And what do they tell us about human beings? For example: tsujigiri (Japanese), meaning ‘to test your new sword on a chance passer-by’. Quite an acceptable practice in feudal Japan, providing one was of samurai status. Also Japanese, ‘boronji‘, which translates as ‘a person who goes about with his head and face concealed in

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