144 Remembering the Kanji

322 villa
v The villa pictured here is ³lled with exotic µowers at every turn,
and has a pair of turtle-samurai standing before its gates. [9]

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323 sell
! A samurai, out of a job, is going door-to-door selling little
windup crowns with human legs that run around on the µoor
looking like headless monarchs. [7]

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Lesson 15
In this lesson we consider a group of primitives associated one way or
another with schooling. Be sure to give your stories enough time to come to
life in imagination, because your images will need a lot more vividness than
these brief “plots” allow for. You know that you are not giving enough time
when you ³nd yourself memorizing de³nitions rather than playing with
images.

* schoolhouse
C Here we see a little red schoolhouse with the 3 dots on the roof.
As you write it in the following frames, you should acquire a
“feel” for the way the ³rst two short strokes move left to right,
and the the third one right to left. Write it twice now, saying to
yourself the ³rst time as you write the ³rst 3 strokes, “In the