On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Jorge E. Jaramillo <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is this e-booklet in amazon > > http://www.amazon.com/ORIGAMI-DIAGRAMS-works-saku-Japanese-ebook/dp/B00YYDI0DS/ > and it name is "works of saku" (no capitals anywhere), it has 4 lovely > models and is only worth $3. So I was curious does anyone know what "saku" > means and who is the author of the models? Japanese abounds in homophones, so romanized Japanese words are often difficult to look up. Looking at the cover image, though, the six characters in the title are: 折り紙 作品集 (apologies if your computer can't display them.) While I'm not fluent or anything, I'm pretty sure of this interpretation of that title: The first three are the word "origami" (o.ri.gami); the second two are the word "sakuhin" (saku.hin) which means "work, opus" as in "work of art"; the last is "shuu" which added to another word means "collection. So it's just "Collection of Origami Works." The center character in yellow does take the reading "saku" in this context, with this "work" meaning; used as the root of a verb, it would take the reading "tsuku-" and means "to make". (Which makes sense, a "work" is a "made thing.") It's a bit weird for someone to adopt it as a pseudonym - I don't think it's a particularly normal Japanese name - but anything's possible. Sort of takes on the feeling of "the maker [of the things]" if it's meant as a pseudonym. It'd be an unusual real name, though. Hope that helps! Anne
