its japanese lyrics for the song. the english lyrics are attributed to Jack Brown so chances are Ringo discussed the song with him, what she wanted it to sound like, wrote Japanese lyrics and a rough sketch, and then he helped her devise the English counterparts. Up until this collab, her English music was usually with the help by some other guy, I think Robbie Clark if I'm not mistaken. Ringo has written entirely English songs on her own, but they usually have a translator credit or something, probably a friend or someone in the company who gives Ringo a hand with her English.
frecklegirl, if you look at the back of the cd you will see the Maru in track 4 and the Kuchi in Togatta Teguchi are both printed in light pink, same as the circle with sa for MarunoSa, the effect being it obscures them and makes them seem invisible. The actual character for kuchi is a bit smaller and thicker than the square here, which is almost larger than the regular square space within you write any given character, and the lines are also a lot thinner than the typical stroke for a Japanese character such as Kuchi. If you type in "shikaku" and hit space enough you will see a square pop up, although if you add it to your text you will see it comes up tiny、□. they probably used a different front specifically for these two symbols.
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