Rabbit's Vkei corner

☆ A blog about visual kei music and Japanese☆ (they/them) 21+

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

(they/them)

☆ A blog about visual kei and japanese

☆ Visual kei word of the day!

☆ I post lyrics, lyric transcriptions and translations (those are kind of on hold right now, sorry). So no matter how much japanese you know, you can sing along to your favourites

☆ You can request songs and words from me

☆ And because I believe that learning through what one loves is the best method, I post visual kei word of the day (as in a Japanese word from a song)

☆ Please understand that I am doing this for fun and my love of this music, I may misinterpret or mistranslate some parts, if you notice I did such a thing, feel free to tell me (politely, please)

☆ Let's have fun, talk about and enjoy some good music together

☆My favourites are: Kizu, Grimoire, Yumeleep, The Madna, mama., Lynch., Leetspeak Monsters, Codomo Dragon, Alevas, Fixer, ShiShi... The list is rather long, hehe

[aliceslanguagediaries]

Kanji of the day ・今日の漢字

❁操

Meaning: manipulate, maneuver

Kunyomi: あやつ

❁操る　（あやつる）：to manipulate

❁操り人形　（あやつりにんぎょう）：puppet

Onyomi: ソウ

❁操作　（そうさ）：operation (machine etc)

❁操縦　（そうじゅう）：steering, operation (plane etc)

❁体操　（たいそう）：gymnastics

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

Some more words with 操 (appears in 操り人形 ayatsuri ningyou in ちぎれちゃう chigirechau)

@aliceslanguagediaries posts daily Japanese and also Turkish content daily!!

(readings in romaji in order)

Kun: Ayatsu

Ayatsuru

Ayatsuri ningyou

On: Sou

Sousa

Soujuu

Taisou

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

☆ visual kei word of the day ☆

Sorry for the irregular schedule, but here's another one for y'all. Very much love the vibes of XAAXAA's latest song, ちぎれちゃう (chigirechau), so let's have a look at the very first few lines.

Vocab:

寄る - (yoru) to approach, co tome closer

見る - (miru) to look, to see

らっしゃる - (rassharu) to be (doing), sonkeigo (honorific language used about the actions of other people, who are socially above the speaker), in the song it is in the imperative form らっしゃい (rasshai)

とっても - (tottemo) very, colloquial とても (totemo)

可愛い - (kawaii) cute (although there is more to it, I have read too many articles about kawaii)

人形 - (ningyou) a doll or a marionette, a puppet, although later on they use 操り人形 (ayatsuri ningyou), so the two other words besides doll actually fit much better (or could it be that we are supposed to think the doll is not manipulated at first?)

華麗に - (karei ni) magnificently, splendidly

踊る - (odoru) to dance

姿 - (sugata) figure, shape (of a person)

どうぞ - (douzo) please (when offering something)

ご覧ください - (go ran kudasai) sonkeigo of 'please have a look'

Lyrics:

『よってらっしゃいみてらっしゃい

とっても可愛い人形が

華麗に踊るその姿を

どうぞご覧くさ

い』

Note: the い is on a separate line in the lyrics, because there is a pause in the song as well

("yotte rasshai mite rasshai

tottemo kawaii ningyou ga

karei ni odoru sono sugata wo

douzo go ran kudasa

i")

'Come closer and watch!

Go ahead, please have a look

At an adorable doll('s)

(Figure) dancing splendidly'

Translation note: I took some creative liberties, a very direct translation wouldn't work, since Japanese and English have quite a different sentence structure

Song: ちぎれちゃう (chigirechau) by XAAXAA

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

☆ visual kei word of the day ☆

Since it seems that death vicabulary is a rather popular topic (please feel free to skip this post if this topic is in any way sensitive or triggering) let's have a look at this part of mama.'s 命日 (meinichi).

Vocab:

首吊り (kubitsuri) - hanging oneself

飛び降り (tobiori) - jumping off

失敗 (shippai) - failure

命日 (meinichi) - anniversary of someone's death

Lyrics:

首吊りも失敗です。(kubitsuri mo shippai desu.) 'hanging myself is a failure too.'

飛び降りも失敗です。(tobiori mo shippai desu.) 'even jumping is a failure.'

Translation note: the simplest and most direct way to translate these two sentences would be a 'A is B too' structure, but a more pretty way to put it could be 'Hanging myself filed too. Even jumping failed.'

Song: 命日 (meinichi) by mama.

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

☆ visual kei word of the day ☆

I guess we're still looking at the kanji 歪, but at a different word this time.

Word and meaning: 歪む (yugamu) means 'to be warped', 'to be distorted'

Lyric: 歪んだ世界じゃほら 今にも消えそうな "silence" (yuganda sekai ja hora imanimo kiesou na "silence") 'look, in this distorted world, a "silence" that will disappear at any moment now'

Song: 沈黙 (chinmoku, The Silence) by DEZERT

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

☆ visual kei word of the day ☆

Another day another song with 歪 (ibitsu). I swear I am not searching for them, they just somehow appear again and again.

Word and meaning: 化粧 (keshou) means 'makeup'

Lyric: 歪な化粧で現場に向かってる (ibitsuna keshou de genba ni mukatteru) 'heading to the (crime?) scene with distorted makeup on'

Translation note: 現場 (genba) could mean 'actual place' or also 'job site' but in the example sentences in jisho it most often appeared in the context of a 'crime/accident scene' so that's what I'm going with

Song: 浴室と矛盾とハンマー (yokushitsu to mujun to hammā, Bathroom, Contradiction and Hammer) by DEZERT

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

☆ visual kei word of the day ☆

Since yesterday was the word 歪 (ibitsu) let's go for something from a song called 歪.

Word and meaning: 浸かる (tsukaru) means 'to be submerged', 'to be immersed in (a condition)'

Lyric: ハロー、絶望に慣れてどっぷり浸かってるんだろう (Hello, zetsubou ni narete doppuri tsukatterundarou) 'Hello, I suppose you are used to desperation and are completely immersed in it'

Song: 歪 (ibitsu) by コドモドラゴン (Codomo dragon)

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

☆ visual kei word of the day ☆

Back with another word - 歪 (ibitsu)

Meaning: 歪 (ibitsu) means 'distorted', 'warped', since the character is not in the jouyou kanji (the most commonly used 2136 kanji, won't have furigana that indicates the correct pronunciation) it is often written using hiragana, like this いびつ

Lyric: 歪な形をした心が大切なものを傷つける (ibitsu na katachi wo shita kokoro ga taisetsu na mono wo kizutsukeru) 'a warped heart hurts what it holds dear'

Song: 天上の果実 (tenjou no kajitsu) by 201号室 (201 goushitsu)

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

☆ visual kei word of the day ☆

Today's word is 鶴 (tsuru).

Meaning: 鶴 (tsuru) means 'crane' (the bird), this song says specifically 千羽の鶴 (senba no tsuru, more often 千羽鶴 senbadzuru), which alludes to the thousand paper cranes one would fold to fulfil a wish of good health

Lyric: 揺らめく千羽の鶴と戻れない春の日 (yurameku senba no tsuru to modorenai haru no hi) 'thousand swaying paper cranes and a spring that that cannot return'

Vocab note: a numerative is used here, 羽 (usually wa, sometimes ba or pa) is a counter for birds and rabbits, read as hane it means 'wings'. And why are rabbits counted as birds? Well, so Buddhist monks could eat them (at least that is how most people explain it).

Song: 雫 (shizuku) by SARIGIA

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

☆ visual kei word of the day ☆

Hello, hello! Since the consensus is murder vocab yes, I shall provide. This time let's look at four words with the same kanji 殺す (korosu).

Meaning: 殺す (korosu) means 'to kill'

Words: kanji compounds are amazing, because you can usually guess what they mean together, if you know them separately. Let's have a look at this line from a Sick² song:

銃殺 (juusatsu) arms + kill -> death by being shot

毒殺 (dokusatsu) poison + kill -> death by poisoning

絞殺 (kousatsu) strangle + kill -> death by strangling

撲殺 (bokusatsu) slap/strike + kill -> death by beating

Lyric: 銃殺 毒殺 絞殺 撲殺 (juusatsu, dokusatsu, kousatsu, bokusatsu) 'shoot, poison, strangle, beat to death'

Song: 妄想悪魔審判 (mousou akuma shinpan) by Sick²

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

☆ visual kei word of the day ☆

Today's word is from the newest 蛾と蝶 single (anyone recognizes the first kanji? Their name means 'moth and butterfly' or ga to chou in Japanese).

Word and meaning: 息詰まる (ikidzumaru) means 'to be stifling' or also 'to be breathtaking', but for the context of today's song, let's go with the first one

Lyric: 冷たく息詰まる暗い底 (tsumetaku ikidzumaru kurai soko) 'cold stifling dark bottom'

Song: 奈落ノ翅 (naraku no hane) by 蛾と蝶 (ga to chou)

Side note: 奈落 (naraku) means hell, or the very bottom and 翅 means (insect) wings, so the song title translates to the (insect) wings of hell

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

☆ visual kei word of the day ☆

Hello again, today's word is 裏切る (uragiru). And if you want to see some more Gravity stuff, be sure to check out @rokudenashi-tl's translations - you can see how much effort and thought goes into them!

Meaning: 裏切る (uragiru) means to betray someone, literally written as 'to cut from the back', so backstabbing, if you will

Lyric: 裏切る友達？(Uragiru tomodachi?) 'a friend who betrays?'

Song: 人狼ゲーム (jinrou game) by グラビティ (Gravity)

Fun fact: the name of this song means Werewolf game, which is an actual game (also called Mafia in English?), where two teams - werewolves and humans - compete to either blend in successfully or find out who the wervolves are

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

Probably a weird question but.. how does this place feel about murder related vocab?

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

☆ visual kei word of the day ☆

I apologize for the sudden disappearance, but I'm back with a new word. Today's word is ごっこ (gokko)

Meaning: ごっこ (gokko) is a suffix that means playing at (suffixed word), game of make-believe

Lyric: トモダチごっこは始めましょう (tomodachi gokko wa hajimemashou) 'let's start the pretense of being friends'

Translation note: can it also be 'let's start playing at being friends'? That's more of an English language question

Song: トモダチごっこ (tomodachi gokko) by DAMY

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

Thank you so much for this blog! I love scrolling through here and learning new things :) hope everything is well with you

Thank you, I'm so happy to hear that! I'm glad I can share my love for this niche music genre and Japanese language with people and hopefully make learning a bit more fun for everyone too ( _ _)

I will be back with more words and songs soon, I promise!

[moonshinemagpie]

The thing that took me years to consciously grasp is that the collocations for English and Japanese are very different even when it comes to basic words you learn as a beginner. You're taught that ureshii means "happy," which is sort of true, but you can actually only use it when you felt happy as the result of something, so it's really more like "gladdened." We're taught that 人 means "person," which is true, but depending on context we might need to use 名 or 方 or 者 or 員 or 人間, ningen, which again we're taught means "human," but you actually use ningen in a variety of contexts where using "human" in English would sound hilarious.

And basically every single word in Japanese is like this forever, in a way incomparable to any germanic or romance languages English speakers might learn.

So in short my advice is don't bother, join a bowling team, go spelunking, throw a birthday party, take a nap.

[tokidokitokyo]

推す

おす

① to recommend; to endorse (e.g. a candidate); to nominate; to support; to back

② to infer (from); to deduce; to gather; to conjecture; to surmise

③ to think (something) through; to ponder deeply

彼女のイントネーションから推すに少女時代はスペイン語圏に住んでいたと思われる。 かのじょ の イントネーション から おす に しょうじょ じだい は スペインごけん に すんで いた と おもわれる。 You can infer from her intonation that she lived in a Spanish-speaking country when she was young.

[wolf-and-moon-rabbit]

This is the osu that oshi or oshikatsu are derived from!