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On-Yomi: ボク — Kun-Yomi: まき
Koohii stories:
1) [roderik] 21-6-2008(158): Imagine a taskmaster giving a cow the command to "start breeding, and start doing it now!", except that the cow takes his advice a bit too literally and starts chasing the taskmaster to carry out this command! instead of finding another cow to breed with. Hence, you see the taskmaster running to the right, trying to stay ahead of the cow.
2) [DrJones] 26-12-2007(78): Hint: This is the kanji from which taskmaster is derived. Actually, this kanji has nothing to do with breed, and a lot to do with pastures and shepherds (also for cowboys, japanese and spanish don't differenciate between animals). Think of a cowboy (taskmaster) who brings his cows to the pasture.
3) [laner36] 19-7-2007(35): I think of Hitler for the taskmaster primitive. This has worked really well. Hitler can be the real person (and works well for kanji such as 激 violent (#497 激)). Or it can be more comical, such as a homosexual man dressed as Hitler for a costume party. As in, a homosexual Hitler has no hope of breeding. (Here you imagine him wearing leather bondage bands). *Also, the taskmaster primitive seems to generally be on the right side of kanji in this book.
4) [Hashiriya] 22-12-2012(32): Imagine a taskmaster giving a cow the command to "start breeding, and start doing it now!", except that the cow takes his advice a bit too literally and starts chasing the taskmaster to carry out this command! instead of finding another cow to breed with. Hence, you see the taskmaster running to the right, trying to stay ahead of the cow.
5) [mrgrimm] 30-9-2009(11): The cow is forced by the taskmaster to breed.