Prompted by Altaira's new year's kawai wish card (http://typophile.com/node/65762), and by Hrant's quiz about the glyph used for the trees, I was reminded of one of my all time favourite calligraphy/typography posters.
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A...
This is great. Way to exploit the potential of an ideographic script. Is this a text or a picture? :-)
(For the uninitiated:
森 mori = forest
林 hayashi = also forest, I think a smaller forest?
where 木 ki = tree)
林 hayashi = also forest, I think a smaller forest?
I think it could be translated as "wood".
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