Showing posts with label walking on tiptoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label walking on tiptoes. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

HANYAUKU, INDEED


The Japanese have a word for it, apparently.  Hanyauku:  the act of walking on tiptoes across warm sand.


The illustration is from Anjana Iyer’s “Found in Translation” series - words that have no direct English equivalent.

Perhaps a Japanese speaker can tell me, do they have a word for walking in pain on really, really hot sand that burns the soles of your feet?