積読 (tsun-doku) “The habit of acquiring books but letting them pile up unread” 📚

A 2-kanji Japanese calligraphy work, black ink on white card, with a black frame.

積読 (tsun-doku) is a recent Japanese phrase meaning something like “buying loads of books and letting them pile up without reading them”.

The kanji:

積 (tsun)

Comes from 積んでおく(tsundéoku), meaning “to let something pile up”.

読 (doku)

Comes from 読書 (dokusho), meaning “reading”.

The above artwork was a commission for a book-lover 📚

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