4 KANJI SYMBOLS of Recent Article

This kanji idiom means "Many flowers blooming in profusion".

The Age of the Warring in Japan [1477-1568]; at that period, a lot of strong, smart shogun existed in Japan.

Now, those shoguns are very popular in Japan.
It is called "戦国武将ブーム[Sengoku Busho Boom]" in Japan.

And, such "Simultaneous emergence of many talents and achievements" is expressed as "百花繚乱[hyakka ryouran]".
Kanji phrase "Hyakka Ryoran" is often quoted by the history book etc. in Japan.

I introduce that kanji idiom for you today.

Look at a lower explanatory drawing.
Hyakka Ryouran; this is kanjji idiom that shows "simultaneous emergence of many talents and achievements."

 

"百[hyaku]" is one hundred.
"花[hana]" is Flowers.
And the flowers are indicating "Outstanding person".
That is, 百花[Hyakka] is indicating many flowers blooming in profusion.

繚乱[ryoran] is kanji idiom that shows flowers are blooming all over the place.

 

When the following situations are expressed, this kanji idiom "Hyakka Ryoran" is often used.

• Many flowers blooming in profusion.
• A gathering of many beautiful women.
• Simultaneous emergence of many talents and achievements.

Example:

• The garden was alive [bright] with all sorts of flowers.
• Since PlayStation 2 came out, the game software store shelves have bloomed riotously with colorful new titles.

 

This is the web page of "Japanese Shogun game" that shows "Japanese Shogun Boom".

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Sengoku Basara 2 - Date Masamune vs Sanada Yukimura

 

Shogun ranking of Japan.

Japanese Shogun Ranking

RANK	NAME
1	真田幸村 [Sanada Yukimura]	Samurai Wiki
2	小田信長 [Oda Nobunaga]	Samurai Wiki
3	上杉謙信 [Uesugi Kenshin]	The Life and Career of Uesugi Kenshi
4	武田信玄 [Takeda Shingen]	Shintak
5	伊達政宗 [Date Masamune]	Date Masamune
6	真田昌幸 [Sanada Masayuki]	Samurai Wiki
7	大谷吉継 [Ootani Yoshitsugu]	Samurai Wiki
8	島津義弘 [Shimazu Yoshihiro]	Word iQ
9	島　左近 [Shima Sakon]	Wikipedia
10	直江兼続 [Naoe Kanetsugu]	Wikipedia

 

 

 

Free download:

Hyakka Ryouran.pdf  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hararie

 

 

This time, I feature "Kanji symbols expressing advance."

Kanji symbols of "Ever onward." by hararie

 

 

Are you using "the limited time to your life" effectively?

Time never waits for man.
Therefore, let's advance!

I teach you the kanji symbols which has such a meaning today.

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Kan-i-Maiou.pdf

Meaning : advance； hard； boldly；

I will advance hard boldly even though it is faced with the difficulty.

In addition, this kanji phrase expresses such a state.

Pronunciation :
Kan-i Mai-ou

Note :

• "敢為[kan-i]" means that person come through things without yielding to difficulty.
• "邁往[Mai-ou]" is to mean the person advances single-mindedly.

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Chokuou-Maishin.pdf

Meaning : advance; straightly; single-mindedly; without looking aside;

I will move forward straightly without wavering.

Pronunciation :
choku-ou Mai-shin

Note :

• "直往[Choku-ou]" means that the person advances straight single-mindedly.
• "邁進[Mai-shin]" is advancement straightly without looking aside.

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Chototsu-Moushin.pdf

 

Meaning : advance； intense vigor； without considering；

I will advance with intense vigor like a wild boar, without considering people's surrounding things and surrounding situation.

Pronunciation :
cho-totsu Mou-shin

Note :
Though the meaning of this kanji phrase seems to have a bad impression, it is not so.
For example...a young man acts, without considering a result.
But, not everybody can necessarily do such action.

First of all, it acts without thinking about a trifling thing.
This might be also important.

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Yuou-Maishin.pdf

Meaning : advance； single-mindedly； positive feeling； advances without fear；

I don't flinch hardship, and I go forward single-mindedly.

Pronunciation :
yu-ou Mai-shin

Note :

• "勇往[Yu-ou]" means it as advance by a positive feeling.
• "邁進[Mai shin]" means that it advances without fear.

 

 

By Hararie

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Keiten Aijin of calligraphy by Takamori-Saigo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meaning :
Respect;
Love and friendly;

A feeling of love with respect and friendly feeling.

Pronunciation : son-sho-shin-ai

Japanese tattoo symbols of Sonsho-Shinai.pdf

Note :
This is the kanji idiom as which "A feeling of love with respect and friendly feeling" was expressed.

When feelings such as "Respect, thanks, affection, and friendship" are conveyed in the attitude and the word for the other person, this kanji idiom is used.

Example :
My benefactor had visited me the other day.
He aided money financially to me when I was very poor.
I was very glad, and thought and I welcomed him with a heart of Sonsho-Sinai.

 

Meaning :
The kanji phrase which expresses the state that a man and woman loves each other.

The kanji phrase which expresses the relations of a very close man and woman.

Pronunciation : sou-shi-sou-ai

Japanese tattoo symbols of Soushi-Souai.pdf

Note :
This kanji idiom is generally used for "Relation of the man and woman".
But, this kanji idiom has another usage.

As an example,

-Then let's suppose that you are a professional baseball player.
You have various dissatisfaction in your team.
You would like to move to New York Yankees.
It isn't yet announced, but, in fact, Yankees wants you.

This state is just "Soushi-Souai".

Media will surely report the feeling of you and the Yankees in this way.

"He and Yankees are relations of Soushi-Souai !!"

 

 

Meaning :
The state that a parent dotes on children.

Pronunciation : shi-toku-no-ai

Note :
This is a kanji idiom expressing "parents' overprotection to an own child."

Japanese tattoo symbols of Shitoku-no-Ai.pdf

By the way, "Shitoku" is the word as which "The state that the cow is licking and loving the calf" is expressed.

Though this seems to be "the words to expressing parents' deep love" apparently, in fact, it is expression used to "When blind love and overprotection are criticized."

Therefore, I think that this is word unsuitable for a tattoo.

But, if it is completely understood, the use of this kanji idiom is an individual liberty.

 

 

Meaning :
Heaven loveth all men alike；so we must love others with the love with which we love ourselves.

Let's respect heavens and love people.

Pronunciation : kei-ten-ai-jin

Japanese tattoo symbols of Keiten-Aijin.pdf

Note :
This "Keiten-Aijin" is a word of "西郷隆盛[Takamori Saigo] (1828-1877)" who is the samurai in Japan.

"Keiten" is the kanji symbols of the meaning of respecting heavens.
And, "Ten" is God [great existence which is not in sight].
And, "Ten" is parents and an ancestor.
And, "Ten" is a senior, the younger generation, a wife, and a child.

moreover, "Aijin" of this kanji idiom means loving to all people.

This is a wonderful word with the meaning "love God and all the people."

 

天は人も我も同一に愛し給ふが故に、我を愛する心を以て人を愛するなり。
[ "Heaven loveth all men alike；so we must love others with the love with which we love ourselves."]

Takamori Saigo

He was "The Last Samurai" of Japan definitely.

He was noble-minded and a person of character.

When things do not accomplish, man makes it others' cause in many cases.
But, in such a case, he didn't make it others' cause.
He was a person who considers it "is because its sincerity is insufficient."

Keiten-Aijin of Kanji symbols by hararie

Keiten-Aijin of Kanji symbols by hararie

There were quite a lot of samurais who yearned for "Saigo with such a character".

Saigo always performed politics for the public and it always tried to live a simple life disinterestedly also himself.

Though he was the person who always collected people's popularity and reliance, for the Japanese government in those days, he was a very obstructive existence.

It is because of having become a mainspring that he accomplishes one large revolution "明治維新[Meiji-Ishin];Meiji Restoration".

After all, his army was driven into the government troops and chose death with the samurai of the subordinate who adores him.

All the persons of the side which subjugated Saigo mourned over his death.

It is because not soldiers but "the bureaucrats of the Japanese government" of the government troops hated Saigou.
His body was buried with many tears.

And many people are visiting his grave still.

Probably Takamori Saigo was the most honest sincere person in Japanese history, and was a hero.

Hararie

Love will find a way.

The illustration on this page is a work of "Boojil" who is the female illustrator in Japan.

http://boojil.ojaru.jp/profile.htm

 

The following two Kanji idioms have the same meaning.

Pronunciation : aikyu-oku-u

Pronunciation : oku-u-no-ai

Meaning :
Kanji idiom with meaning "Feelings of love and hate reach everything that relates to not only the person concerned but also the person concerned".

Note :
"Oku-u" is the kanji symbol with which the crow on a roof was expressed.

Love and hate reaches not only the person but even also the bird on the roof of the person's house.
Feelings loving too much that become to like even the crow that stops in the roof of the house of the person who loves.
Similarly, feelings of abhorrence to the person reach even the crow on the roof of the person's house.

These are the kanji idioms as which such a feeling is expressed.

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Aikyu-Okuu.pdf		Japanese tattoo symbols of Okuu-no-ai.pdf

 

The form of these two kanji is similar very much.

But please notice a red line.

This red line is a difference point of these two kanji.

Upper kanji means "Crow".
And lower kanji is kanji to which the "Bird" is expressed.

By the way, quite a lot of crows live in Japan.
They are disliked very much by Japanese people.

The reason is because the garbage collected by them is scattered.

However, the crow has the reasonable excuse.

 

"You who throws away "Food and dish that can be eaten" in large quantities every day are bad !"

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Aizen-shuchaku.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

Meaning :
kanji symbol expressing "Feelings of man and woman who starves for Desire for love."

Kanji idiom expressing a state that oneself is addicted to "the avarice to its love."

Pronunciation : ai-shu-zen-chaku

Note :
I think that this kanji phrase expresses essence of "desire for the love of man and woman."
Because human can't live without love.

This is actually kanji idiom not used in a good meaning.
But I think this to be "a honest kanji phrase expressing human essence."

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Aibetsu-riku.pdf

 

 

 

 

Meaning :
This is a kanji idiom expressing the following feelings.

• Pain sorrow which parts from a dear person.
• Pain and sadness of lifelong separation or bereaved to "beloved person [Parent,child and couple, etc.]."

Pronunciation : ai-betsu-riku

Note :
The separation from beloved person is very painful.
But, a man should keep living getting over "Grief and pain."
I lost my son who loved by the traffic accident in January this year.
The son doesn't return even if I bewail it.

My son's life was only eight years.
My son is alive together with me in my heart now.

Hararie