I recently looked at some japanese lands (islands and forests) and realized how cool it is that just one Kanji means Island, forest and mountain. I thought it would be cool to alter basic lands so that instead of the waterdrop, tree and fireball on the bottom was just a large kanji of the correct color. I made a little mock up and it ended up looking very nice. I am going to have to scan some high res lands to do it right. But I wanted some help.
What is the name of the Kanji on the swamp? I tried looking up "swamp" and I didn't find anything that looked like the actual kanji on the swamp. Can someone give me a link or the name of the kanji so I can use it? Sadly plains looks to be 2 seperate characters so that kinda ruins the circle but I am still interested in making these altered lands.
I will use my favorite art for all the lands. Probably the ones drawn by John Avon. Although I haven't actually decided yet. But I will scan them in with a high resolution and then clone out the color symbol, and put in the correctly colored Kanji and add a slight shadow so that it has a similar aesthetic.
Well, do you have pictures or something else that we can see that have the kanji you have on them?
The first five which I gave are the same kanji as what are on Japanese cards. The second five (which draco also gave) are just the kanji for the colors.
EDIT: I added an image which has the color pentagon, using the kanji (w/Hiragana and Romaji) just in case your computer isn't supporting kanji.
EDIT2: Fixed a bad translation of Plains. (I accidentally put "heisei" instead of "heichi"; must've been thinking about the emperor at that time...)
This is a very clever idea and I'm really looking forward to seeing the final product. Also the kanji you might be confused about are the ones draco gave you. They are the kanji for the COLOR not the land. Didn't know if that's where the confusion came from.
This is a very clever idea and I'm really looking forward to seeing the final product. Also the kanji you might be confused about are the ones draco gave you. They are the kanji for the COLOR not the land. Didn't know if that's where the confusion came from.
The first five which I gave are the same kanji as what are on Japanese cards. The second five (which draco also gave) are just the kanji for the colors.
mine were there first!
you hadn't got those there when I posted!
Too bad that Plains is two characters in Japanese. If you want aesthetic balance, you could use the Chinese versions instead, which has two characters each:
It's not the name, but just using the first kanji (平) could work, if you really wanted to just use one kanji; the two kanji (平地) pretty much mean flatlands, and the kanji split for this: the first kanji just means "flat" or "broad", the latter means "earth" and is also one of the kanji used for the Land type.
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What is the name of the Kanji on the swamp? I tried looking up "swamp" and I didn't find anything that looked like the actual kanji on the swamp. Can someone give me a link or the name of the kanji so I can use it? Sadly plains looks to be 2 seperate characters so that kinda ruins the circle but I am still interested in making these altered lands.
English Name: Kanji Hiragana Romaji
Plains: 平地 へい-ち hei-chi (note: lit. "Flatlands")
Island: 島 しま shima
Swamp: 沼 ぬま numa
Mountain: 山 やま yama
Forest: 森 もり mori
Edit: Adding in the text images below, so if you want a text version, they're here...
White: 白 しろ shiro
Blue: 青 あお ao
Black: 黒 くろ kuro
Red: 赤 あか aka
Green: 緑 みどり midori
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if you want to see my (too paint heavy) kanji plains I'll post pictures on request.
Should look sweet.
I'll have to find pics of the colour kanji for an alternate version.
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if you want the romanji, let me know.
The first five which I gave are the same kanji as what are on Japanese cards. The second five (which draco also gave) are just the kanji for the colors.
EDIT: I added an image which has the color pentagon, using the kanji (w/Hiragana and Romaji) just in case your computer isn't supporting kanji.
EDIT2: Fixed a bad translation of Plains. (I accidentally put "heisei" instead of "heichi"; must've been thinking about the emperor at that time...)
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平地 -Plains
沼 -SWamp
島 -Island
森 - Forest
山 -Mountain
I did say they were the COLOURS...
mine were there first!
you hadn't got those there when I posted!
If I may, here's a very quick calligraphizing of the kanji. Pardon the edginess, I'm still trying to get used to that particular brush.
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Plains: 平原 (píng yuán)
Island: 海岛 (hǎi dǎo)
Swamp: 沼泽 (zhǎo zé)
Mountain: 山脉 (shān mài)
Forest: 树林 (shù lín)
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Wouldn't be perfect, but it'd be an option
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apart from rainbow that is...
Thanks! I simply matched the non-foil part of the blue in the text box and painted it out.
if that means it's got a patch of foilyness missing, that's not good.
It looks fine, you'd have to see it in person.
I use a Fujifilm S5000, it is pretty nice, but it isn't anything out of this world.