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pagoda
On-Yomi: トウ
Elements:
pagoda, soil, dirt, ground, flowers, fit, meeting, umbrella, one, mouth
Heisig story:
On the left we see a mound of dirt, and to the right flowers made to fit together. The two sides combine to create a great pagoda made of dirt, with flowers by the tens of thousands fitted together for the roofing of each of the layers. Be sure to put yourself in the scene and fit a few of the flowers in place yourself so that the image works its way into memory with full force.
Koohii stories:
1) [nilfisq] 14-8-2007(165): In order to build a pagoda in this small Japanese garden everything has to fit: the soil to the left and the flowers in the upper right corner.
2) [xeyes] 21-5-2007(48): Pictograph-o-rama. This is a corner of a Japanese garden, with a small mound of soil on the left, and a little concrete pagoda in the front with flowers behind it. (To my eye, the fit looks a lot like a little pagoda anyway. This may or may not cause confusion for you, though…).
3) [nolusu] 13-7-2007(39): The ground next to the pagoda could barely fit all the flowers the empress wanted planted.
4) [anthropic] 7-7-2008(34): Thankfully I was in a pagoda when I, ummm, soiled myself, the flowers covered up the smell and the mess fit out one of the holes in the side while no one was watching…
5) [Yasser] 9-11-2008(23): A pagoda is a place of harmony in Japan. This means that even the "soil" where "flowers" are planted must "fit" together (good for remembering the order of writing).