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''Henohenomoheji'' (へのへのもへじ) or ''hehenonomoheji'' (へへののもへじ) is a face drawn by Japanese schoolchildren using hiragana characters.〔 (''Let's Learn Hiragana with Japanese Culture: Henohenomoheji'' ) at Japanese.about.com. Accessed on 2009-08-11. 〕 The word breaks down into the seven hiragana characters: ''he'' (へ), ''no'' (の), ''he'' (へ), ''no'' (の), ''mo'' (も), ''he'' (へ), and ''ji'' (じ). The first two ''he'' are the eyebrows, the two ''no'' are the eyes, the ''mo'' is a nose, and the last ''he'' is the mouth. The outline of the face is made by the character ''ji'', its two short strokes (''dakuten'') forming the ear or cheek. Children use the ''henohenomoheji'' as the faces of ''kakashi'' (scarecrows)〔 and Teru teru bōzu. ==Variations== Other versions may have been current in other epochs and places. Japanese-Brazilians who learned hiragana in the 1950s, in the State of São Paulo, report that they were not taught to draw the ''ji'', and thus left the face unframed, as in the ''henohenomohe'' shown at right. Other people from the same epoch but from other towns in São Paulo report that they learned to draw a big ''no'' around the face, instead of the ''ji'' (not shown). Others have drawn the ''henohenomoheji'' with an extra ''i'' (''い'') at the end, which is drawn under the ''ji'' to form a neck or an ear. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henohenomoheji」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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