Results, lit: if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper
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- 幽霊の正体見たり枯れ尾花【ゆうれいのしょうたいみたりかれおばな】
expression:
- if you look carefully, it's more ordinary than it appears; the ghost, when examined closely, was withered silver grass [literal]
- お雇い外国人【おやといがいこくじん】御雇い外国人・御雇外国人
noun:
- hired foreigner; foreign advisor hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji Era
- 花鳥諷詠【かちょうふうえい】
expression:
- the beauties of nature as the key poetic theme; the central theme in composing poetry (haiku) must be the beauties of nature and the harmony that exist between nature and man. (The slogan of the Hototogisu School of modern Japanese haiku) - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥風月
- 遠流【おんる・えんる】
noun:
- banishment (to a location far from the capital); the harshest of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system
- 知らぬは亭主ばかりなり【しらぬはていしゅばかりなり】知らぬは亭主許り也
expression:
- the husband is always the last to know; everyone knows of the wife's infidelity but the cuckolded husband - idiom
- 白洲梯子【しらすばしご】
noun:
- stairs at the front of a noh stage, which go over the white gravel separating the audience from the stage ➜ 白洲
- 世も末【よもすえ】
expression:
- the end of the world; the world is beyond saving; there's no hope for the future; this degenerate age
- 液浸【えきしん】
noun:
- immersion; dipping; in microscopy, immersing both the objective lens and the specimen in a liquid to increase the numerical aperture; in photolithography, filling the air gap between the final lens and the wafer surface with a liquid to increase the resolution
- 小松引き【こまつひき】
noun:
- collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat in the New Year) ➜ 子の日の遊び
- 麻の中の蓬【あさのなかのよもぎ】
expression:
- if even the most crooked person is surrounded by good people, he will straighten up as does mugwort growing in a hemp field
- 北★【きた】
noun:
- north
- the North; northern territories
- North Korea - abbreviation
- north wind - archaism
船はまっすぐ北に向かっている。 The ship is bearing due north.
『北の国から』は、北海道富良野市を舞台にしたフジテレビジョン制作のテレビドラマ。 "From the North Country" is a TV drama produced by Fuji TV and set in Furano in Hokkaido.
- 亡羊補牢【ぼうようほろう】
noun:
- locking the barn door after the horse has bolted; doing something too late; mending the pen after the sheep are lost [literal] - four character idiom
- 雪隠で饅頭【せっちんでまんじゅう・せんちでまんじゅう】
expression:
- if you are hungry, where you eat doesn't matter; manjū in the toilet [literal] - proverb ➜ まんじゅう
- hiding something good for oneself alone - idiom
- 金の鎖も引けば切れる【かねのくさりもひけばきれる】
expression:
- even the strong-willed fall into temptation - proverb
- there's nothing you can't do if you set your mind to it - proverb
- コーナーワーク・コーナー・ワーク
noun:
- working the corners; hitting the corners of the plate; pitcher's technique of throwing a ball aiming at the edge of the strike zone - Baseball term - From English "corner work"
- cornering skill (skating, driving, etc.)
- それはそれで
expression:
- in that case; (might not be what was expected or hoped for but) if that's the case
- 雪下ろし【ゆきおろし】雪降ろし・雪おろし Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- wind blowing snow down a mountain
- removing snow from the roof of a house
- 永楽銭【えいらくせん】
noun:
- Chinese coinage produced during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (used in Japan from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period)
- 三無主義【さんむしゅぎ】
noun:
- the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s - four character idiom
- 尊大語【そんだいご】
noun:
- speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener - honorific language
- 真相究明【しんそうきゅうめい】
noun:
- probe into the truth (of the matter); dig into the real facts of the case; get at the root of a matter - four character idiom
- なければ《無ければ》
expression:
- if it does not exist; if it is not there; if it is not ... ➜ 無い【ない】
suffix:
- unless one ...; if one does not ... ➜ ない
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