Comments on: A-Yokai-A-Day: The Strange Turtle in Asuwa River https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2025/10/24/a-yokai-a-day-the-strange-turtle-in-asuwa-river/ illustrations, folklore, and blog Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:05:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Matt https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2025/10/24/a-yokai-a-day-the-strange-turtle-in-asuwa-river/comment-page-1/#comment-49326 Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:05:18 +0000 https://matthewmeyer.net/?p=33148#comment-49326 In reply to Sightless Scholar.

That’s another big part of it.

]]> By: Sightless Scholar https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2025/10/24/a-yokai-a-day-the-strange-turtle-in-asuwa-river/comment-page-1/#comment-49325 Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:30:02 +0000 https://matthewmeyer.net/?p=33148#comment-49325 Probably also doesn’t help that Japanese tends to have lots of short syllables while English tends to have fewer, longer syllables, giving the two languages completely different natural cadences and screwing with any poetic form that relies heavily on meter.

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