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imitation
On-Yomi: モ、ボ
Elements:
imitation, tree, wood, graveyard, flowers, sun, day, large, St. Bernard
Primitive:
graveyard(cmentarzysko) The element shown here should be taken to represent a modern graveyard. Gone are the cobwebs and gnarled trees, the tilted headstones and dark, moonless nights that used to scare the wits out of our childhood imaginations. Instead, we see brightly colored flowers placed before the tombstones, the sun shining gloriously overhead, and a cuddly St. Bernard sitting at the gate keeping watch. [10]
Heisig story:
Ah, but haven't modern graveyards become a parody of their ancestors! The flowers are plastic, the writing on the stones is unimaginative and cold, and the whole thing looks more like a marble orchard than a right and proper graveyard. This kanji continues with the modernization trend by picturing imitation trees in the graveyard. But of course, how convenient! They don't need pruning or fertilizing, their leaves don't fall, and they remain the same color all year long.
Koohii stories:
1) [Elphalpo] 21-1-2008(149): If I find out this furniture you're selling me is made of imitation wood, I'll put you in the graveyard.
2) [Ninjasha] 15-1-2008(67): The Japanese are so enamored of everything plastic, they even put IMITATION plastic trees in their graveyards! (No, not really, but I wouldn't be surprised).
3) [elanlan] 29-12-2009(40): This kanji was a real asshole. No one liked this kanji. That is why that when this kanji died, no one cared, and it received a wooden, imitation tombstone; not a fancy marble one, at its resting place in the graveyard.
4) [peepiceek] 14-5-2008(22): The imitation tree looked like a big sun flower.
5) [Ricardo] 8-5-2006(21): imitation: we left a wodden sculpture (an imitation) at the graveyard of our old dog. (graveyard: were we put flowers for our deceased big St. Bernard, good ol' Sunny).