About this Website

Copyright

Use of AI

It goes without saying (but we will say it anyway) that we never use AI to do client translations. We do admit to having had two images on this website that we generated using AI, meaning that we were guilty of causing the associated energy use.

Those images were not essential, and have been taken down. There will be no further AI-generated images on this website.

In addition, we have deleted from our computers all images that we had experimentally created using AI. They are gone forever and will never be seen from us.

Use of Stock Photos

Unlike many entities claiming to be translation companies, we do not load our website with lovely stock photos of lovely people who do not work here because, unlike many companies claiming to be translation companies, we believe in honesty and don't feel we need the phoniness.

Technology & Tools

The author is a professional translator and interpreter, but not a professional website designer. This site is designed to be simple and functional, but does not use all the bells and whistles available just because they are available. I will leave that to people who are more knowledgeable about websites.

Every effort has been made to avoid link rot, and we check links periodically. If you notice broken links, however, we would appreciate your telling us.

Colors & Images

The two colors used in this site are these traditional Japanese-style colors:

Ebicha
(海老茶)

Reddish brown. The ebi part means shrimp and is followed by "brown," indicating that it is a brown shade with a touch of shrimp color.
This color is used in an old expression for girl students, who in the Meiji and Taisho period wore hakama of this color. More specifically, the expression, 海老茶式部 (Ebicha Shikibu) combines the color name ebicha with shikibu, and is a play on the name of the female author of The Tale of Genji, Murasaki [purple] Shikibu.

As another bit of color-related trivia, there is a plant Murasaki Shikibu (scientific name: Callicarpa japonica) named after the above-noted author, and the photo here, showing its berries, demonstrates why.

Torinokoiro
(鳥の子色)

Pale yellow, a color similar to that of egg shells.

Note that the image forming the left border of the top headers was created by a very simple method, consisting of photographing a pile of crushed up autumn leaves from in front of our office and cropping the image in the header appropriately. Nothing more exciting was involved, and no small furry animals were deprived of a home in the process.