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Sep 15, 2022 · Most English descriptions of unique Japanese words like ikigai are one person’s best attempt to convey their own unique understanding of a complex and highly personal concept. The results are ...
Nov 13, 2003 · The indispensable vagueness of 'domo-domo'. It's when I'm away from Japan and forced to speak in another language (in this case English) that I realize just how vague Japanese can...
Dec 12, 2005 · Although the Japanese have been producing great art and writing about it for many centuries, including a rich tradition of poetics going back a millennium, the philosophical discipline in Japan corresponding to Western “aesthetics” did not get underway until the nineteenth century.
Nov 12, 2020 · But you must realize that in Japanese, that one word — which has a bazillion English translations — has a deep, robust meaning that while vague, also fills you with an expansive definition ...
- Ariel Kern
Jan 5, 2009 · In the present article, the author explores and analyzes six Japanese concepts widely regarded as being almost more that any others culture-specific and culturally revealing – amae, enryo, wa, on, giri, and seishin – and shows how the use of the natural semantic metalanguage (based on universal semantic primitives) helps to make these ...
- Anna Wierzbicka
- 1991
Jul 29, 2023 · The term “caucasian whiteness” is used to distinguish it from Japanese “whiteness,” since Japanese perceive their own skin color as shiroi (white), iro-jiro (fair), or hada-jiro (white-skinned).
Jul 11, 2012 · Fuzzy logic alone is not sufficient for modeling vagueness at a level that matches the many subtle aspects of vague language use that have emerged from philosophical and linguistic research on this topic.
