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January 3, 2009
A note about this site's name
So my site is called Kijou (an approximation of pronouncement is KEY-JEW, it's not correct but it works), which is a Japanese word that due to the oddness of their language can mean a number of different things depending on characters used to write it. The meaning I picked it for was Perilous Castle, kind of nerdy I know. And at the time the site only housed a forum for playing DnD and Rifts while at work anyway so it seemed to fit.
But the bulk of the other meanings of Kijou seem to arise from its being similar to our way of saying on top of. So most of it's meanings in general Japanese would be things like, "on the desk" or "on a horse" or the more amusing use of "cowgirl style position".
So yes it's a odd word that in English means nothing and in Japanese it means a hand full of mundane things and one amusing one.
This is why you never get an Asian tattoo.
Posted by Tim at 11:46 AM