I've always loved delving into the history of words, but mainly in English or the Indo-European family. With Japanese, obviously I'm way out of my element, but since it's pictorial in nature, it's pretty interesting to check out even for illiterates like me. I must have gotten bored in some writing practice/doodling and ended up combining it with the early oracle character form (with some drops of blood added for effect). Picasa offered some cool effects, so I thought I'd share. T-shirt designs perhaps?
And then after a bit more doodling, I present to you my masterpiece... ta-da!
Next time I'll have to play around with 義, like Hudson Taylor is using there.
