Japanese Sayings ⛩️🍣🍡 in 2025

nanakorobi yaoki
”Stumbling seven times but recovering eight.”

Muri ga toreba, dori hikkomu.
”If unreason comes, reason goes.”

Otto ga ie ni inai toki wa nagaku taizai shinaide kudasai.
”Don’t stay long when the husband is not at home.”

Akusai wa hyaku-nen no fusaku
”A bad wife spells a hundred years of bad harvest.”

Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
”Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice inside the ceiling laugh”

Saru mo ki kara ochiru.
”Even an expert can make mistakes”

Nihonshu wa hontō no kokoro o akiraka ni shimasu.
”Sake reveals the real heart.”

I no naka no kawazu taikai wo shirazu
”A frog in a well does not know the great sea.”

Ko-in ya no gotoshi.
”Time flies like an arrow.”

Kono sekai no uchi ni nozomu henka ni, anata jishin ga natte misenasai.
”Be the change you want to see in the world.”

Anzuru yori umu ga yasashi
”Giving birth to a baby is easier than worrying about it.”

Muyo no cho-butsu.
”A useless long object”

Anata ga yonda subete o shinjirunara, yonde wa ikemasen.
”If you believe everything you read, better not read.”

Nokorimono ni wa fuku ga aru
”Luck exists in the leftovers”

Baka ga atte riko ga hikitatsu.
”Due to the presence of fools wise people stand out.”

Tonari no shibafu wa aoi.
”The neighbour’s lawn is green (The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence).”

Muryō hodo kōkana mono wa arimasen
”Nothing is more expensive than free”

Kaeru no ko wa kaeru
”Child of a frog is a frog.”