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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.
- Per Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations#Ansei → Tenmei and the suggestion of WJBscribe, Tenmei was resumed as an active username. During the period 9 October 2012 to 30 May 2013, the username Tenmei was semi-retired and I edited as Ansei. As of 31 May 2013, User:Ansei and User talk: Ansei became redirects to this page and User talk:Tenmei. --Tenmei (talk) 16:00, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Idioms
editI try to identify English idioms which express complex ideas using few words.
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Throw out the baby with the bath water
- Talking past each other (鸡同鸭讲 or 雞同鴨講)
- None is so deaf as who will not hear
- Teach fish how to swim (班门弄斧)
- Make a mountain out of a molehill
- This Is the House That Jack Built; Informational cascade
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Notes
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- This Is the House That Jack Built "... Here is a fact. Here is where it says this is a fact. Here is where it clarifies that the guy who says this is a fact is not a crank. This is the dog that chased the cat that worried the rat that ate the corn that lay in the house that Fact built ...." -- User:Gladys j cortez a/k/a GJC 21:58, 13 February 2010 (diff)
- "In my opinion, once you correct an error, you have no further obligation, but I'd suggest calling it to the attention of the community. For a Japan-related article, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan should be a good place for discussion. Then it's in the hands of the community. They can provide support in an edit war." Fg2 5:20, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
- "The only perfect crime that exists is not the one that remains unsolved, but the one which is solved with the wrong culprit." -- Actor John Hurt in "The Oxford Murders"
Shinto Shrines -- disestablishment of Buddhism in 1871, State Shinto disestablished in 1946
- The list of Shinto Shrines financed and controlled by the Japanese State (1871-1946) was composed of
- 188 daisha (large shrines)
- a large number of chūsha (medium-sized shrines)
- 2,207 shosha (small shrines).<:ref>Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric. Japan Encyclopedia, p. 550.</ref>
- State Shinto Shrines are ranked in an hierarchy composed of four grades: national shrines (kokuheisha}, Imperial shrines (kanpeisha)
Bookmarks
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Look up snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Bibliography Japanese export furniture
- Service historique de la Défense
- Lederer, Hayashi Shihei: Diskurs über die Wehrhaftigkeit einer Seenation.
- Digital Colections (August 31, 1904)
- MOFA: Demographic Trends and Their Implications
- AAS Annual Meeting, San Diego: Japan sessions (20004)
- Japan Forum: New Cultures
- Wakaranai, Naturalización -- Peru
- William Fleming, Southeast Review of Asian Studies (2006)
- Regulatory capture; Strategic default; Gresham's law
- CiNii; NengoCalc (Tübingen) + &:nbsp; +National Institute of Informatics (NII)
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Quotes
editSenryu
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."