242 Quotes About Japanese

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

Japan!everything in details perfection.

Itsumademo ai shiteru, Yuki. I love you forever, my daughter.

雨ニモマケズ風ニモマケズ雪ニモ夏ノ暑サニモマケヌ丈夫ナカラダヲモチ慾ハナク決シテ瞋ラズイツモシヅカニワラッテヰル一日ニ玄米四合ト味噌ト少シノ野菜ヲタベアラユルコトヲジブンヲカンジョウニ入レズニヨクミキキシワカリソシテワスレズ野原ノ松ノ林ノ小サナ萓ブキノ小屋ニヰテ東ニ病気ノコドモアレバ行ッテ看病シテヤリ西ニツカレタ母アレバ行ッテソノ稲ノ朿ヲ［＃「朿ヲ」はママ］負ヒ南ニ死ニサウナ人アレバ行ッテコハガラナクテモイヽトイヒ北ニケンクヮヤソショウガアレバツマラナイカラヤメロトイヒヒドリノトキハナミダヲナガシサムサノナツハオロオロアルキミンナニデクノボートヨバレホメラレモセズクニモサレズサウイフモノニワタシハナリタイ南無無辺行菩薩南無上行菩薩南無多宝如来南無妙法蓮華経南無釈迦牟尼仏南無浄行菩薩南無安立行菩薩

The bells of the Gion monastery in India echo with the warning that all things are impermanent. The blossoms of the sala trees teach us through their hues that what flourishes must fade. The proud do not prevail for long but vanish like a spring night’s dream. In time the mighty, too, succumb: all are dust before the wind.

When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.

When you suffer a calamity - then be it so; now is the time of calamity. When you die - then be it so; now is the time to die. Thus you save yourself from calamity and death.

天生園に遊びにくる鳥たち、虫、木々、草や花。風、雨、光。お月様。すべてに言葉があると私は信じています。それを聞いているだけで、一日はもう目一杯です。天生園の森のなかにいるだけで、世界はそこにあるのです。夜に星のささやきを聞いているだけで、永劫の時の流れも感じられます。

While he mused on the effect of the flowing sands, he was seized from time to time by hallucinations in which he himself began to move with the flow.