From: markyesme2 <markyesme2 <at> MSN <dot> COM>
Date: 26 sep 2002
Subject: Re: Promoting Shogi overseas

> the countless people to whom I taught the game. I always felt anyway that
> the game should be presented as it is and therefore only with
traditionally
> marked kanji pieces.

But I have read that even the Japanese have a different "learner's" version.
I am not sure what that looks like (maybe kanji with arrows, or kana if that
makes sense ... not sure if the Japanese have the same concept of
representing a word by its leading letter, or leading syllable as the case
would be with kana).  So, I am not sure if it is tradition or just a sacred
cow... or some infatuation with the exotic.

Mark :)