blog for people from abroad about Fukui Prefecture in Japan.
September/22/2019
Theo Jansen is a world-renowned Dutch artist who is often called a modern-day Leonardo da Vinci.
He’s particularly famous for his Strandbeests, walking artworks that combine science and art. Strandbeests means “beach animals” in Dutch. The animals
September/21/2019
Do you know who invented the term Dinosauria, which is the formal term for dinosaurs? In 1842, the British biologist and paleontologist Richard Owen came up with the term by combining the Greek
In Japanese, dinosaur is translated as 恐竜, which means a fearful dragon. I don’t know why, but dragon (竜), not lizard, is used in the Japanese word for dinosaur. Interestingly, in Korean and Chinese, the word dragon is used as well. Indeed, dragons and dinosaurs are similar in that they’re really big, strong and mysterious. It was a good idea to use the word for dragon in the word for dinosaur.