Japanese-English Dictionaries for Poetry

Given the importance of Kanji which are not of Chinese origin, it is striking that a large standard Japanese-English on-line dictionary lacked the English words for fish through stages of their growth, such as, 'fry' and 'fingerling'.

So, neophytes, you are forewarned : if you are interested in Japanese poetry, it is worth dipping into an English translation of a good book by a native Japanese linguist on the subject of the Kanji.

This is one more reason to be interested in the topic of web page markup for poetry in translation, as the standard pop-up translation plugins for browsers are based on those default internet dictionary resources.

One source of Kanji information in English is ... wiktionary !  Try en.wiktionary.org/wiki/金

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