The Nikkei National Museum ran an interesting project called the Nikkei Kotoba Forest for which they requested that contributors write and record a poem and include a picture that was used together in combination. This was my contribution, a series of Japanese words that I would have heard growing up.

In the Nikkei of Time

Tadaima!
Jichan gohan
Sansei Sensei
Shimbun Shogun
Sushi udon
Judo dorosu
Banzai!
Shogatsu tako
Baka Urusai
Yakamashii!

(I’m home

Grandpa Rice

Third Generation Teacher

Newspaper Shogun (TV show)

Sushi Udon

Judo underwear

Hurray!

New Year Octopus

Idiot Annoying

Too noisy!)