Japanese Proverbs and SayingsDaniel Crump Buchanan University of Oklahoma Press, 1965 - 280 pagini The proverbs and sayings of a people are the best source for understanding their national character. This collection of Japanese proverbs and sayings, the first published in English, provides insight into the complex and, to Westerners, often baffling tenets of Japanese civilization. Here are 2,500 proverbs and idiomatic expressions that have been selected as illustratie of Japanese thought. Many have English parallels, but even after reading the apparently uniquely Japanese sayings, one must agree with the proverb, "Ninjo ni kokkyo nashi," "There are no barriers to human nature." |
Cuprins
Japanese Characteristics Aesthetics | 3 |
Ambition | 7 |
Amorousness ΙΟ Awareness of Difficulty | 15 |
Body Consciousness | 18 |
Caution | 37 |
Class Consciousness | 42 |
Coarseness | 47 |
Courage | 49 |
Learning | 146 |
Loyalty | 148 |
Memory | 150 |
Obligations | 151 |
Optimism | 152 |
Patience | 157 |
Pessimism | 164 |
Practicality | 172 |
Courtesy | 51 |
Criticalness | 53 |
Cruelty | 59 |
Curiosity | 61 |
Deceit | 62 |
Detail | 67 |
Discipline | 70 |
Drink | 79 |
Emotion | 82 |
Family | 88 |
Fatalism | 104 |
Friendship | 108 |
Generosity and Hospitality | 110 |
Gregariousness | 112 |
Honesty | 116 |
Honor | 118 |
Imitation | 123 |
Immaturity | 124 |
Indirectness of Speech | 131 |
Industry | 139 |
Kindness | 143 |
Pride | 182 |
Punctuality | 185 |
Realism | 187 |
Respect | 193 |
Responsibility | 199 |
Rudeness | 201 |
Selfishness | 204 |
Sensitivity | 208 |
Shame | 211 |
Simplicity | 216 |
Submissiveness | 218 |
Superstition | 220 |
Suspicion | 232 |
Thrift | 238 |
Tolerance | 241 |
Will | 251 |
Wit | 254 |
Women | 263 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
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