Thanks, Ken and Alan. For those few who may not know, "Asahi" is a common brand name in Japan. Besides Asahi Optical and Asahi Brewing, there is the Asahi Shimbun, one of the largest and most respected newspapers in Japan.
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/ Asahi is a very nationalistic concept, similar to the term "Columbia" in the US. "Asa" means morning, while "hi" is fire or the sun. Asahi therefore is the morning sun, or the "rising Sun," the red circle symbol of the nation of Japan. It is also related to the Japanese word for their own country" Nihon (or Nippon). "Ni" also means sun, and "hon" means, in this context, origin. Thus, Japan is "the origin of the sun," or "the land of the rising sun." That term, of course, like much of Japan's language and was borrowed from China. The the Chinese, China was "the middle kingdom," or the center of the civilized world. Looking east from China, Japan is indeed the land of the rising sun. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Ken Waller <kwal...@peoplepc.com> wrote: > > The broken is pretty good I hear! > > -----Original Message----- > >From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <danmaty...@gmail.com> > >Subject: PESO: Asahi Glass > > > >50 years ago, I bought an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic at the PX, rather than > the > >Minolta 101 I went there to buy, in part because I was told that Asahi > made > >its own glass, and that Asahi Glass was the very best available. > > > >Tuesday evening I ran across this sample of Asahi glass, and was impressed > >by its weight, color and taste: > >https://www.photo.net/photo/18387490/asahi-glass > >iPhone 6s Plus > >Comments are welcome > > > >Dan > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
