“Boketto miru” means to gawk and “Boketto suru” means to look spaced out.Īs a transitive verb, “Bokasu” can mean to refuse to come out and say something, or to hide the truth. The word “bokeh” comes from the Japanese word meaning to be senile, suffer from dementia, or to be fuzzy or blurred.Īs an intransitive verb “Bokeru” means to become fuzzy, or to become forgetful with age, become senile, go gaga or to go soft in the head. It is not boke, that rhymes with poke, or bokah, that rhymes with poker, or “bouquet” or any other similarly mutated word, it’s bokeh. Just put the “bo” and the “ke” together, to make “boke”. So think of “bottle” and “kettle” and you are almost there. A utensil used for boiling water, a container to hold fish. The “ke” part of the word is pronounced like the “ke” in “kettle”. This in itself is not a problem, but it will help you on this occasion to learn to prounounce bottle in the mother tongue.

If you feel the urge to pronounce the word bottle with an A, like “battle” you are probably American. One way to think about the pronunciation is to say the first syllable “bo” as the first syllable in the word “bottle”. With roman alphabetic characters, it is spelt “Boke”, or “Bokeh” with an H on the end, which joined with the E helps us to pronounce it Bokeh, and not boak, which would be the natural way to pronounce a vowel, followed by a single consonant, then another vowel, like “poke” for example, in the English language. I’m tired of hearing people mispronounce the Japanese word Bokeh, meaning the out of focus part of a photograph.Īs the master of bokeh in my photography, and having lived in Japan and speaking the language for the last 18 years, I thought I’d put the record straight once and for all, and tell you how the Japanese actually pronounce it, and give you a little background on the meaning of the word.

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