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My username is derived from Tenmei (天明), which was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. "year name") during the years from 1781 through 1789. The new era was designated to mark the enthronement of Emperor Kōkaku (光格天皇, Kōkaku-tennō) in 1781.-- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 420-421.
I try to identify English idioms which express complex ideas using few words.
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Shinto Shrines -- disestablishment of Buddhism in 1871, State Shinto disestablished in 1946
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Senryu
If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it
- 鳴かぬなら、殺してしまえほととぎす
- Nakanunara, koroshiteshimae, hototogisu
If the cuckoo does not sing, coax it
- 鳴かぬなら、鳴かして見せようほととぎす
- Nakanunara, nakashitemiseyou, hototogisu
If the cuckoo doesn’t sing, wait for it
- 鳴かぬなら、鳴くまで待とうほととぎす
- Nakanunara, nakumadematou, hototogisu
- Beware the shortsighted quick fix that can lead to worse problems
- The close-at-hand problem is always the one the defender must take care of before anything else, but the solution should include what you are committing yourself to over the long haul.
"It is altogether too easy to let the burden of the immediate problem obliterate other considerations from your thinking and to jump at what promises to be a quick fix. What often happens is that you have not achieved a long-range success but only converted one difficulty into another perhaps less obvious but no less onerous one.
- -- Robert Byrne. "Pastimes; Chess," New York Times. December 24, 1989.
Wikiquote explains here that the following is misattributed --
- • I am only one, but I am one.
- • I can not do everything, but I can do something.
- • I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
I learned these word as a Helen Keller quotation, and I think of her each time I read them.
- A politician uses history the way a drunk uses a lamp post -- for support rather than illumination. -- John Dower
- Mark Twain said: "People commonly use statistics the way a drunk uses a lamp post, for support rather than illumination."