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Life

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By form All ProverbsFour charactersUntranslatable wordsStories behind wordsHaiku · By theme PatiencePerseveranceWorkDisciplineRelationsCourageHumilityLearningLifeSetback & ReboundNatureTime ·
  1. 020 Dumplings over flowers.
  2. 021 Gold coins to a cat.
  3. 026 Spilled water does not return to the tray.
  4. 027 Regret never comes first.
  5. 028 The stake that sticks out gets hammered down.
  6. 034 Fortune comes to homes that laugh.
  7. 035 Illness starts with the spirits.
  8. 041 The child of a frog is a frog.
  9. 042 A kite can give birth to a hawk.
  10. 043 The base of the lamp stands in darkness.
  11. 044 The doctor neglects his own health.
  12. 045 The dyer wears an undyed hakama.
  13. 048 Even those who think they have none have seven quirks.
  14. 049 Ten people, ten colors.
  15. 050 Some insects even relish the bitter knotweed.
  16. 051 Where you live becomes the capital.
  17. 053 On a journey, a companion; in life, kindness.
  18. 059 Not saying is the flower.
  19. 061 Clothes dress up even a stable hand.
  20. 062 People are not what they seem.
  21. 064 Early rising earns three coins of profit.
  22. 069 One stone, two birds.
  23. 070 Each day, one good deed.
  24. 072 A rice cake fallen from the shelf.
  25. 073 A boat just when you need to cross.
  26. 075 A hundred harms, not one benefit.
  27. 084 After ease comes hardship, after hardship comes ease.
  28. 086 What happens twice will happen three times.
  29. 097 Too short for a sash, too long for a sleeve cord.
  30. 098 Catching a sea bream with a shrimp.
  31. 100 Buying cheap is losing your money.
  32. 103 There is not always a loach under the willow.
  33. 105 When the wind blows, the bucket maker prospers.
  34. 111 Should we look at blossoms only in full bloom, at the moon only when it is clear?
  35. 112 One inch ahead lies darkness.
  36. 115 The neighbor's flowers are redder.
  37. 116 Know what is enough.
  38. 117 Standing, half a tatami; lying, one tatami.
  39. 118 A stomach eight-tenths full needs no doctor.
  40. 119 Too much is as bad as too little.
  41. 127 The large holds the small.
  42. 128 A treasure left to rot.
  43. 129 Unskilled, but devoted.
  44. 135 Plow when it shines, read when it rains.
  45. 140 Sincere simplicity, quiet strength.
  46. 142 Hiding the head but not the rear.
  47. 143 Eye drops from the second floor.
  48. 144 Water on a burning stone.
  49. 145 A bee on a tear-streaked face.
  50. 146 Across the wide world, there are no demons.
  51. 154 Hardship is the seed of joy.
  52. 156 There are mountains, there are valleys.
  53. 158 Rust comes from the blade itself.
  54. 166 "Catch me the moon!" cries the child.
  55. 170 Once past the throat, the burn is forgotten.
  56. 171 No smoke rises where there is no fire.
  57. 172 Ill-gotten money does not stay.
  58. 173 Honesty is the treasure of a lifetime.
  59. 174 Lying is the beginning of theft.
  60. 176 Better fifty today than a hundred tomorrow.
  61. 195 Even a walking dog runs into something.
  62. 200 A man's life is a long road walked under a burden; there is no need to hurry.
  63. 210 Sick on a journey — my dreams go wandering still over withered fields.
  64. 219 This road — no one else walks it. Autumn evening.
  65. 220 Snow has melted — the village is full of children.
  66. 221 A happiness about medium, I'd say — my own New Year.
  67. 222 Come and play with me, sparrow without parents.
  68. 224 How delicious it looks, the falling snow — softly, fluffily down.
  69. 226 What happiness, crossing the summer river, sandals in hand!
  70. 229 On the great bell, alighted, sleeping, a butterfly.
  71. 230 Again and again I ask: the snow, how deep is it now?
  72. 231 Cockscombs — there must be fourteen, maybe fifteen.
  73. 244 Suspicion fills the dark with phantoms.
  74. 245 Lost in five leagues of fog.
  75. 250 Three in the morning, four at night.
  76. 255 Praising one's own miso.
  77. 256 One would even borrow the cat's paws.
  78. 257 The moon and the pond turtle.
  79. 258 For all the gain of one's pains: exhaustion.
  80. 262 The flower on the high peak.
  81. 263 What remains unseen is the flower.
  82. 265 When abuse passes, reason withdraws.
  83. 266 Against a crying child and a local lord, no one wins.
  84. 267 There is fortune in what remains.
  85. 268 An empty stomach fights no battle.
  86. 269 One longs to pick the flower, but the branch is high.
  87. 271 The name reveals the thing.
  88. 273 The world seems wide, and it is small.
  89. 275 Let yourself be wrapped by what is longer than you.
  90. 290 Japanese poetry has the human heart as its seed, from which grow myriad leaves of words.
  91. 291 The color of the flowers has faded, while I watched the long rains fall — and my life go by.
  92. 294 Act on reason, and you grow sharp-cornered. Pole along feeling, and you are swept away. Force your will, and you are cramped. Decidedly, the human world is hard to live in.
  93. 296 A house that does not leak, meals that end hunger: that is enough.
  94. 301 I know only what is enough.
  95. 304 Bloom where you were sown.