-Wired Magazine
"Rowley has created a visual vocabulary that is striking and, most importantly, memorable." -Wired Magazine


Review
"Rowley has created a visual vocabulary that is striking and, most importantly, memorable." -Wired Magazine


Book Description
This compact book is a lively collection of contemporary memory aids (mnemonics) that teaches you the shapes and sounds of hiragana and katakana, the two basic syllabaries used in written Japanese. Combining clever drawings and text memory aids, each hiragana and katakana pair is presented on a single page for comparison, with separate visual and text mnemonics. Fits handily into any pocket.


About the Author
Michael Rowley is an illustrator and graphic designer living in the San Francisco Bay Area.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This compact book is a lively collection of contemporary memory aids (mnemonics) that teaches you the shapes and sounds of hiragana and katakana, the two basic syllabaries used in written Japanese. Combining clever drawings and text memory aids, each hiragana and katakana pair is presented on a single page for comparison, with separate visual and text mnemonics. Fits handily into any pocket.