Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-202.166.41.73-20141220081716/@comment-187.152.195.103-20150125002213

No kidding. After a while you recognize some basic kanji like hatsu 「初」 (first), yuki 「雪」 (snow), hi 「日」 (sun/day), tsuki 「月」 (moon/month) and so on.