摘要
来自东方的礼物这个快乐的笑脸诞生于20世纪90年代末，随着日本i-mode移动互联网平台的发布，在跨入21世纪之际首次跃入大众的眼帘。而创造这个表情符的正是以之为傲的栗田穰崇，他只用了一个月的时间就设计出了180个栩栩如生的图形符号。他走出家门在城里观察人们如何相互沟通、表达情感，以及他们在看到已有的诸如简化的天气图标这样的微小图像时会有什么反应。据穰崇说，首批表情符的设计灵感来源于两样东西。第一个是漫画，就是日本的那种连环画或者漫画小说，
Gifts from the East Born in the late1990s,the smiling,happy face firstbegan popping up around the turn of the21st century with thelaunch of the i-mode2)mobile internet platform in Japan.Theproud father was Shigetaka Kurita,who had only a month tocome up with180of the visual references.He went out intothe city to observe how people interacted with each other,expressed emotion,and responded to existing miniaturepictorial3)representations such as simplistic weather icons.According to Kurita,inspiration for the first emojis came fromtwo sources.The first was manga4),a Japanese comic book
