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This has the nuance of “a close call with death” or “a close shave” but it’s also used like “just in the nick of time,” too.疑心暗鬼 (gishin’angi) English Translation: “Suspicion will raise bogies.”Feel like someone’s watching you? Are you “jumping at shadows”? That...
The Japanese Word for To Be/Death is Awesone March 2, 2014 Well, from what I can cobble together from scattered information online (here’s a good post on it), the word for “to be” or “am” in Japanese is “desu.” Sometimes it is shortened as “des” or “dess.” There ...
for the fifth basic taste – along with sweet, sour, bitter and salty – that we didn’t have a name for or even know existed until someone premiered the word in the Japanese journal of psychology Shinrigaku Kenkyu in 1963. Since then it’s gone from strength to strength – metaphoricall...
There is a suggestion in some texts that the duel came about because Musashi was avenging the death of his father at the hands of Kojiro. It would explain the brutality and the humiliation of death from a sword whittled from a boat oar, and of course it is suggested in the title of ...
Thepowers of the oni are tremendous- they can reattach body parts they lose in fights; crush enemies with one blow from their kanabo, or spiked iron club; fly; change form at will; and inflict disease, insanity, and death as they see fit. Intelligent and extremely nasty, the oni ...
FOOTPRINTS OF THE BUDDHA IN EARLY BUDDHIST ART.For four centuries afterGautama’sdeath (approx. 483 BC), legends and facts about theHistorical Buddha, his dialogues and his sayings, were preserved only in the memories of monks and followers. There were no written records or artistic representatio...
But, he maintains, "the reality is that porn is mostly a shitty place filled with shitty people. I'd just like to be a light among the shit." The Japanese have a word, karoshi, that means death by overwork, an affliction widespread enough to spawn government studies and public-service ...
” According to Buddhist teachings, thedevaare said to be undergoing the same suffering (dukkha) within the endless cycle of death and rebirth (samsara) that all creatures experience. Help was therefore offered tokamiin the form of Buddhistdiscipline. Buddhist temples were even built within ...
Interested in haiku from an early age, Bashō at first put his literary interests aside and entered the service of a local feudal lord. After his lord’s death in 1666, however, Bashō abandoned hissamurai(warrior) status to devote himself topoetry. Moving to the capital city of Edo (now...