Yoshiaki Takebe – Kanji Isn’t That Hard

Yoshiaki Takebe – Kanji Isn’t That HardPublisher: All Press | 1993 | ASIN: B001B3CLBG | Pages: N/A | PDF | 112 MBNot for the serious kanji scholar who is looking for an accurate history of the formation of kanji characters, but it is an interesting book to look through. The book gives 24 rules for understanding kanji. The kanji characters used to illustrate these rules have nice illustrations that show where they came from (or the author’s creative ideas of where they could come from). The explanations of the kanji are in English and Japanese, and the Japanese is kept fairly basic. Overall this is an enjoyable book and can serve the purpose of simply getting someone interested in kanji and giving a little better idea of what kanji are.