Downloading the "1000 Kanji Understanding Through Pictures PDF" is only the first step. To move the kanji from the page into your long-term memory, follow this 4-step protocol:
Commit to 20 Kanji per day. In 50 days (less than 2 months), you will have completed the 1000. Each morning, review the 20 from the day before using only the pictures. Do not look at the Kanji side until you have tried to recall it. 1000 Kanji Understanding Through Pictures Pdf
It showed the kanji for (木). It wasn’t just a drawing of a tree. It was a photograph of an ancient cedar in a misty forest, and the kanji’s strokes were superimposed over the branches, roots, and trunk so perfectly that the character and the tree became one. Kenji blinked. He could smell the damp bark. Each morning, review the 20 from the day
To make the pictures fit, the authors sometimes alter the shape of the Kanji slightly. It wasn’t just a drawing of a tree