March, 2025

Sheep paper is hard to touch in Japan, but it has appeared in adventure novels and fantasy, and many people may know it. Sheep paper is a sheet-shaped sheet made by removing the skin of sheep, goats and cows and stretching it thinly. The author is one of the people who have come into contact with such stories. The Syrian people I met at the library were soaked in sheep skin paper. Beginning with trial and error in making sheep skin paper in Japanese bathrooms, I will travel to Syria, Israel, Bahrain, U.K., Turkey and the world. Once you have finished reading, you will feel like you have adventured over sheep paper.

This is a book that introduces the method of identifying individual birds, "bird sign survey" (individual identification), which is a procedure to understand birds. The text is summarized in the form of reports by bird sign investigators (banders). Visuals such as photographs are easy, but there are also ways to contribute internationally through surveys and become banders. Birds are attached to the survey, but they also have diagrams on their types and how to attach them to help them understand. It is a book that allows you to deepen your knowledge of the actual bird survey and birds.

If you convert it on a personal computer, you may have fewer opportunities to be aware of kanji in recent years when the kanji you want comes out. Shizuka Shirakawa, in the title, is a kanji scholar who elucidated the secrets of the origin of kanji. The author learned from Shirakawa explains with modern kanji, old characters, ancient characters, and illustrations.
Kanji made in ancient China. When we explore how society should be at that time, we can see the mechanism. First of all, why not turn the page from the kanji you are interested in?

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