haiku kanji mnemonics
Conning's Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course or KLC
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My concern at present for recognizing kanji is to be able to read haiku in the Japanese original ... not in artistic script, but in what we would think of as non-italic block print script, e.g.,
俳句.
The best book for this at the moment is Conning's Kanji Learner's Course supplemented by Heisig or Henshall and a dictionary from Kodansha such as the second edition Learner's Dictionary by Halpern or the excellent Essential Kanji concise dictionary ( the latter has same joyo kanji as in the Henshall etymology volume.)
Conning, however, thinks that you just have to learn the out-dated phonetics for compound kanji words by rote. I disagree and want to use haiku and graphic novellas and flashcards to show that you need not give up on mnemonics for those jukugo ON-yomi, either.
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