From: Eric Greenwood <thecav <at> GTE <dot> NET>
Date: 17 jun 1998
Subject: Re: Word meaning

  People:
    While I find the letters here fascinating and enjoyable, and am glad they
are here, I am forced to point out that letters like these are even less
Shogi-related than Sam Sloan's "questionable" contributions that so much fuss
was made over a short time back, and certainly in any case give him ammunition
in any future disagreements w/ our excellent moderator.

 Two questions: 1) Colin Paul Adams, I believe, has published some excellent
Tenjiku material-does anyone have copies available?

 2) I would be interested in any material concerning regulations of any
on-line Shogi tournaments, and whether it would be possible to have such be
officially rated.

 Comments and intelligent dialogue welcome!

   Eric V. Greenwood
    thecav <at> gte <dot> net

Roger Hare wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:57:20 BST, Roger Hare wrote:
>
> > Nothing to do with shogi, but I wonder if anyone could tell me what
> > the word "Misaki" means. I am not sure if that is hiragana or katakana
> > rendering. The word may be to do with some coastal feature like "point",
> > "headland" or "bay" as it is part of the name of a lighthouse.
>
> and since then, he has received several replies indicating the meaning
> of the word. Thank you very much. However, I'm afraid that this leads
> into the next question. In the same text in which the word "Misaki"
> occurs, there are several instances of the strings "o^" and "u^" (eg:
> Do^miki Saki, Nyu^do^ Saki - yes, they are all lighthouses). I guess
> these are intended to be encodings of an accented character - can anyone
> tell me what the accent should be (I am guessing a horizontal bar over
> the letter)?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Roger Hare