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cocoon
On-Yomi: ケン — Kun-Yomi: まゆ、きぬ
Elements:
cocoon, flowers, hood, stick, thread, spiderman, insect
Heisig story:
Though it's a good thing that the primitive for cocoon has been radically abbreviated from this, its full form as a kanji, the story it holds is a charming one. The silkworm (insect) eats the leaves of the mulberry bush (the flowers), digests them and transforms them into thread with which it spins about itself, in mystic wisdom, its own coffin (the hood). The dividing line that separates the two elements helps the picture of the little worm cutting itself off from contact with the outside world, but as a character stroke, it is a clear exception.
Koohii stories:
1) [dihutenosa] 27-7-2008(190): This is a simple two-column manga showing the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a cocoon. First, the caterpillar gets under a large flower (bees tend to hang around flowers, which scare away other predators). Then, in the first frame, we see the caterpillar (insect). Then, a bar separating this frame from the next frame (remember that Japanese manga run the other way!), in which we see the insect covered with thread, making a beautiful cocoon.
2) [eightyd] 15-8-2009(172): I dont like lesson 51 so far.
3) [gdaxeman] 14-1-2008(82): The magic flower is the reason why Spider-Man ended up miniaturized and confined inside a hood-like cocoon together with an insect. Now, only a walking stick separates them both.
4) [Alucard] 19-1-2007(45): See book, one of the good stories you can remember from there.
5) [mattimus] 20-11-2009(31): Spider-Man bent over to pick up a pretty flower when a giant glass hood dropped over him- it's a trap! Now he's stuck inside, fending off a swarm insect with his walking stick as they try to wrap him in a cocoon. Could this be the end of Spider-Man?!