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drum

On-Yomi: コ — Kun-Yomi: つづみ

Elements:

drum, samurai, beans, table, one, mouth, branch, ten, needle, crotch

Primitive:

drum The element meaning drum shows a samurai over a table. The top stroke of the table is appears to be missing, but actually it has simply doubled up with the final stroke of the element for samurai. [9]

Heisig story:

The full kanji for the drum adds a branch, apparently to serve as a drumstick, to the primitive for drum.

Koohii stories:

1) [dingomick] 2-9-2007(165): Japanese festivals have drums so big, a samurai has to SIT (not stand) on a table to beat one with a tree branch! http://www.d2.dion.ne.jp/~hidafyh/furukawayh/gyouji/image/maturi03.jpg.

2) [romanrozhok] 20-2-2008(41): I really hate the primitive meaning of "table" for "bean." I just use "bean." Anyways, for the DRUM primitive, imagine a SAMURAI who beats on a DRUM with two chopsticks, and a BEAN skewered on each end of the chopstick to produce a better sound. And the obvious story is: "DRUMing on a DRUM with a huge BRANCH".

3) [sindhikara] 4-1-2009(29): Mr. Bean tries to play drums with 10 different branches he found on the ground.

4) [TheSleeve] 6-11-2007(22): These SAMURAI, sitting at the TABLE and waiting for their food, grab some BRANCHES to begin DRUMMING a rhythm while they wait. (In fact, they stand on the table, removing the top stroke!).

5) [gavmck] 7-12-2009(15): A drum cannot drum without a stick. No stick? Use a branch instead. HINT: For drum primitive - Our samurai has eaten loads of beans and now his LOWER HALF (tummy full of beans) is bloated and stretched taut like a drum. We can see him tapping contentedly on his "drum". In Japanese folklore, tanuki are believed to play music by drumming "ponpoko pon no pon" on their tummies.

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