簡素
Kanso
A taste for the essential.
- 116 足るを知る Know what is enough.
- 117 起きて半畳、寝て一畳 Standing, half a tatami; lying, one tatami.
- 118 腹八分目に医者いらず A stomach eight-tenths full needs no doctor.
- 135 晴耕雨読 Plow when it shines, read when it rains.
- 140 質実剛健 Sincere simplicity, quiet strength.
- 059 言わぬが花 Not saying is the flower.
- 020 花より団子 Dumplings over flowers.
- 119 過ぎたるは猶及ばざるが如し Too much is as bad as too little.
- 175 花七日 Blossoms last seven days.