Japanese Sayings ⛩️🍣🍡 in 2024

Kuni yaburete, sanga ari.
”The country is in ruins, and there are still mountains and rivers.”

Kitto seikō shite miseru to kesshin suru koto ga nani yori mo jūyō da.
”Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”

Baka wa shinanakya naoranai
”Unless an idiot dies, he won’t be cured.”

Naite kurasu mo issho, waratte kurasu mo issho.
”It is the same life whether we spend it crying or laughing.”

Tsukideta kugi o uchikomimasu.
”The nail that sticks out is hammered down.”

Koketsu ni irazunba koji wo ezu
”If you do not enter the tiger’s cave, you will not catch its cub.”

Baka na ko hodo kawaii.
”The more stupid the child the dearer it is.”

Gou ni itte wa, gou ni shitagae.
”Entering the village, obey the village ”

Eizoku-sei no ki no ue de okane ga sodachimasu.
”Money grows on the tree of Persistence.”

Tonbi (or Tobi) ga taka wo umu
”A kite breeding a hawk.”

Kokai saki ni tatazu.
”Repentance never comes first.”

Utanai shotto wa, hyaku-pāsento hazureru.
”You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

Deru kui wa utareru
”The stake that sticks out gets hammered down.”

Nana korobi, ya oki.
”To fall seven times, to rise eight times”

Marui tamago wa, kiri-kata ni yotte seihōkei ni suru koto ga dekimasu. Anata ga sorera o hanasu hōhō ni ōjite kotoba wa kibishīdeshou.
”A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.”

karo tōsen
”Summer heater winter fan”

Bushi wa kuwanedo taka-yoji.
”A samurai, even when he has not eaten, uses his toothpick.”

Iwanu ga hana.
”Not-speaking is the flower (Silence is golden)”