The Interesting Kanji for Shoes and Leather

Hi, everyone!!

Last week, much snow has fallen in Tokyo, japan,

and my favorite shoes below was very useful to take care not to fall :)

so i'll tell u  the kanji about it.

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What's japanese word ‘‘kawa’’ means?

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There are japanese word ‘‘kawa’’, and it has two kanji characters.

Let's take a look,,,

The left one means skin, hide, pelt,

and the right one means leather.

A hide will be processed to make some leather.

We call that process ‘‘namesu’’.

In the picture, u can find a kanji for leather in the kanji for ‘‘namesu’’.

Anyway, we can find the kanji for leather to be a part of another kanji which is related to ‘‘leather’’.

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The kanji which has a part of ‘‘leather’’!!

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Quiz: What's the meaning of,,,

①the kanji includes ‘‘leather’’ and ‘‘change’’

②the kanji includes ‘‘leather’’ and ‘‘wrap’’

The answer is,,.

①leather＋change means shoes

②leather＋wrap means a bag

by the way, 

leather＋scoop means a ball, and

leather＋quicken-one's-change means a whip.

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Samurai with leather??

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There are more kanji.

Tomo is a protecter when they shoot a bow.

Utsubo is tube-shaped case to contain allows.

Saya is a sheath.

Kura is saddle for horse and cow.

Munagai and Shirigai are strings for front and back of the horse.

i'm not good at drawing horse :P hehe

That horse is fat :O

if u think it's interesting, plz share it :)

im grad if i could be your help to understand kanji!!

Thx for reading to the end,

MATANE :D