Results, lit: if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper
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- 大事の前の小事【だいじのまえのしょうじ】
expression:
- don't put the trivial ahead of the important; don't sweat the small stuff; don't bother with the details (before embarking on a great enterprise) - proverb
- read the fine print; be careful of the small things (before embarking on a great enterprise) - proverb
- 四色定理【ししょくていり・よんしょくていり】
noun:
- four-color theorem (colour) (theorem stating that any map can be colored such that no two adjacent segments have the same color, if only four colors are used)
- 落第☆【らくだい】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- failure (in an examination); failing to advance (to the next year) Antonym: 及第
- falling short of the standard; not making the grade
- 祭文【さいぶん・さいもん】
noun:
- address to the gods; type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era
- 安居【あんご】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- varsika (meditation retreat; usu. for 90 days starting on the 15th day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar) - Buddhism term
- 応天門の変【おうてんもんのへん】
noun:
- Otenmon conspiracy (political incident in 866CE centered around the destruction by fire of the main gate of the imperial palace) - archaism
- 印地打ち【いんじうち】
noun:
- big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages)
- 印地【いんじ】
noun:
- big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages) - abbreviation ➜ 印地打ち
- 衛士【えじ・えいし】
noun:
- soldiers of the ritsuryo system that guarded gates of the imperial palace, the court, etc.
- term used in error to refer to young men that were made to do forced labour in the ritsuryo system
- guards originally stationed at the grand shrine at Ise and shrine at Atsuta, Nagoya to protect the officials there
- 忠臣蔵【ちゅうしんぐら】
noun:
- performance or narrative based on the story of the Forty-seven Ronin (esp. the Kanadehon Chushingura, an epic puppet play first performed in 1748) ➜ 浄瑠璃
- 臈【ろう】
noun:
- year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) - Buddhism term
- becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience
- 連打★【れんだ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- repeated blows; striking repeatedly; barrage
- consecutive hits (e.g. boxing, baseball)
- 脇明け【わきあけ】腋明け
noun:
- robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides, and no wrapped fabric along the bottom ➜ 闕腋の袍
- small opening in the side of traditional Japanese clothing (where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit); clothing with such an opening (usu. worn by women or children) ➜ 八つ口
- ずば・ずんば・ずは
expression:
- if it is not ...; if it does not ... - after the -nai stem of a verb; ずは is now pronounced ずわ - archaism
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