Mariko Takagi emoji. You surely associate this term with bright yellow smileys. Yet, emoji means picture writing, or pictogram, with the Japanese word holding two words: e 絵 for a picture, and moji 文字 for a character, a letter, or a complete writing system.
kanji. You might have heard that kanji—the Japanese term for Chinese characters—is ideographic; that one can always ‘read’ the meaning within the form. That’s a myth! The main body of kanji is phono-logographic.
e/moji graphy—the essence of kanji, visually. The third volume in Mariko Takagi’s series, following “Hanzi Graphy” (in English) and “Kanji Graphy” (in German), brings new clarity and terminology—an indispensable guide for people interested in the intersections of writing, reading, typography, and culture.
In this presentation, Takagi aims to introduce the leading arguments of her latest book, published in March 2022.