From: Manabu Terao <manabu.terao <at> mx3 <dot> ttcn <dot> ne <dot> jp>
Date: 26 jun 2006
Subject: Re: Looking up kanji for promoted silver

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Hello Adam and shogi fans,

It's a cursive style of the character of "Kin"(Gold). Promoted pawn, lance,=

kNight and Silver have the same character of "Kin(gold)" in different=20
cursive styles. So the character on a piece of promoted silver like
your picture reads "Kin" but we call it "Narigin"(promoted silver).

For general information of East Asian Calligraphy, please refer to the
page in Wikipedia at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calligraphy

Hope this helps.
Manabu Terao

Adam Skalny <a3c <at> shogi <dot> sk> wrote:

> Dear shogi funs,
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> Time of our next shogi presentation is near -- next weekend^^. Now i am=
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> recreating shogi set help: paper with piece names in Slovak, Japanese,=
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> all piece related rules, piece kanji from actual set, and its move patter=
n.
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> I have troubles with kanji for narugin. On sets used in presentation, it=
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> has "kin"-like kanji with four horizontal strokes, but i can not find=20
> such kanji in a dictionary -- thought it's radical was JIN (person), but=
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> i had no luck:-( In wikipedia article about shogi, narugins kanji is ZEN=
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> (all) -- only three horizontal strokes.
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> Sorry for this awkward description, here's a picture to clarify it^_^:=
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> http://shogi.sk/pub/narukin.png -- red's on my sets, black is closest=20
> match i've found (kanji from wikipedia article).
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> Do you know this red kanji, please?
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> Thank You very much for help.
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> Best regards
> Adam
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