A letter to express 2005

Chinese character ability test association announced the result of poll "The one Kanji = Chinese character to express the current year" and it was released at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto. Last year it was 災 "disaster", this year it is "LOVE".

Princess Nori Weds, Ai Fukuhara (Table tennis), Ai Miyasato (golf), Ai Otomo (Volleyball) played very well. I was so impressed with this "I love Ai-chan!" news. The Aichi Expo had a copy "love Aichi expo", and people helped each other after Hurricane Katrina and other disasters (but 70% of Japan Tsunami aid is unused!). On the other hand we had a plenty of bad crimes that are lacking in love. This is really bad: In the last two months, little girls were killed. this is Ibaraki case, this is Hiroshima case, this is Kyoto case. And I hate this too. Well so crazy...

LOVE (Ai in Japanese ) was chosen because

I was a little bit shocked to know this is the first time that such a positive meaning character was picked since the foundation started holding the event 11 years ago. I like "Love" but as far as I look back this year, I think No.2 改 (change), or No.3 郵 (postal) would fit this year. Maybe after long long recession, finally people need something heart warming and light in the future. I think the letter "LOVE" shows "our hope" more than the fact of this year.

Comments

[Charles]

I am not sure we are communicating clearly, mari.

Yes, I recognize 愛 and I can write it myself. I wanted to know if you wrote the 愛 that is the picture for this blog story, it is interesting calligraphy.

[Mari]

Yes, Charles. That is what I wrote. That is LOVE. If you are not sure, this is Japanese viewer page. Make sure it.
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/jviewer.html

[Charles]

mari, did you write the 愛 that you used in the picture for this story? My calligraphy teacher told me that you can see the personality of a person by the way they write kanji. I want to see how you write 愛.