Kenneth G. Henshall is a graduate of the universities of London (B.A.), Sydney (Ph.D.), and Adelaide (Dip. Ed.), and is now a senior lecturer in Japanese at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He has also taught at the universities of Auckland, Western Australia, and California. Professor Henshall is well known for his translations of Japanese literature and is the author of A Guide to Learning Hiragana and Katakan.
Tetsuo Takagaki is a graduate of the universities of Wakayama (B.A.) and San Francisco State (M.A.), and is now a senior lecturer in Japanese at the University of Auckland. He has also taught at the universities of Hawaii and Maryland, and at Tsuda College in Tokyo. He is the author of a number of publications on Japanese language and linguistics.
..".I use it every single day, and have done for almost a year now.
It is the most brilliant reference book ever for learning kanji. I
use this in conjunction with a phone app for Android, Obenkyo. I
use the app to learn how to write each kanji, and to study them. I
consult this book daily to learn the Why of each kanji, and to
figure out how to remember them. There is a story to each
kanji--and when you know the story it is much easier to remember
each kanji. To find a kanji, you look it up by the readings in the
back. If you get one book to learn kanji, this is the one you
should get." --Goodreads
"This book is nothing less than an etymological kanji dictionary of
all 2000+ joyo (everyday use) kanji! FOr each kanji character, it
presents its history in brief, references it to associated
characters, tells its story of how it has evolved into its current
form, and also its readings (both kun and on readings) and three
example words/compound words written using the character. Of all
the Japanese learning-related books I own, this one is by far the
one I've gotten the most out of. I heartily recommend this one!
--Squidoo.com
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