My denji jisho (electronic dictionary) states that asahi means "the morning [rising] sun"... its written with the kanjis for morning (asa) and sun (hi) ^_-
a lot of things is named after it, for example the asahi shinbun (shinbun = newspaper) ~Katrin Am 4 Jun 2008 um 13:10 hat frank theriault geschrieben: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:58 PM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Asahi is the name of a river, a lot of different things are named after > > it, much like say Washington. Washington Mutual Insurance has noting to > > do with the Washington Nationals< (baseball team), which has noting to > > do with Washington and Lee University, except for the name... > > I always thought Asahi meant "light" in Japanese. Not light as in > "less affected by gravity" but light as in "absence of dark". Ex > Oriente Lux and all. > > Of course I could be wrong. And I'm sure there is an Asahi River in Japan. > > BTW, speaking of the Washington Nationals, they have nothing to do > with baseball. Have you ever seen them play? > > cheers, > frank > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. ****************************************************************************** Desert Rose Chris' & Katrin's X Japan homepage! Please visit it! http://www.desertrose.de >From now on I will try to live for you and for me. I will live with love...with dreams... and forever with tears.. ****************************************************************************** -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
