That’s two rabbits in Japanese. Or pretty close, anyway. I learned it from an old Japanese draftsman who worked with me in Honolulu.
Long story … but I found out in the course of our friendship that the Japanese do not pluralize by adding an ‘s’. They are very precise. Specific in the numbers. Not just rabbits, but two rabbits or four rabbits. And of course, two rabbits will make four rabbits (and more).
I have been watching two rabbits at play in the early evenings, hopping around in the tall grass of an all-but-abandoned house near me. Each time I see them, I remember with great fondness the kindly Japanese man who touched my life in Hawaii.
