[Quiet Man Cometh]

In one of the novels for the Magic the Gathering Kamigawa card set the main character could do something called blood kanji, which was what it sounds like. Symbols written in his blood that would cast spells. Another character was learning Kanji but not good at it. I remember she send a note to the main via kanji written on a piece of paper and it flew like a butterfly, but it was tattered and ripped when it got to him since she wasn't good enough at it yet.

The stuff I picked up with that magic card set I've sort of cross-referenced with other dubious sources to sort of pick out some meaning. For intance, kami appears to mean something like spirit, since it's used to refer to the spirit world critters that are invading the human world because the humans pissed them off. One card, "hanakami" depicts a flower spirit, and while looking up the Cherry Blossom Festival on Wikipedia I encountered the term "hanami" which refers to "flower viewing" apparently, so it appears that "hana" means flower or blossom. That's pretty much how I've been picking things up.

Not totally reliable, is it? ;)