Kyoto Honne Quiz

In Kyoto, an ordinary remark often carries a second meaning. Would you like some tea over rice? How very nice. I will think about it. This app gives you the line, and four readings of it. One of them is what was meant. Ten questions a round. Get all ten and you earn the title of Bubuzuke Specialist. WHAT IS IN IT — 200 questions across eight areas - Bubuzuke (saying no): the long way round to asking you to leave - Is that a compliment? Praise-shaped remarks that are not praise - Living next door: noise, boundaries and bins - Shops and business: first-time customers, haggling, and I will think about it - Office and school: the polite machinery of meeting rooms and staff rooms - Outsiders and the old city: where Kyoto begins, which generation you are, when you arrived - Family and relatives: memorial services, the family home, and are you still single - Money and appearances: the going…