I recently purchased and put up this poster of the Joyo Kanji, the 1945 Japanese characters for everyday reading, from White Rabbit Press (creators of the best kanji flash cards out there and great source of Japanese texts outside Japan).
I’m not sure if this poster is motivating or depressing. As you can see, it’s huge (the map of Japan is a standard 2ftx3ft just to give you an idea of how massive this poster is). I can read and write the green and blue kanji (required for Japanese Language Proficiency test 3+4) and at least recognized about half of the purple kanji (JLPT 2) but even then, that’s roughly half of the Joyo Kanji. Somedays I think Japanese is just too impossible, but I do my best to ganbare (endure).
