Probably for the standard westerner the first difficulty is to put the kanji in the proper position, I mean not upside down!
I do not know any rule for this except that you should recognize some of the main characters. Kanji are written in 2 directions, horizontally and vertically and quite often both directions are used at the same time. But this point is not too important as for the time being we just want to hold the piece properly.
Kanji can be classified by several ways, but the most0