252Japanese idiom 四字熟語
文武両道
ぶんぶりょうどうBunbu ryōdō
“The pen and the sword, both ways.”
The meaning
Cultivating mind and body, study and action, together. The scholar-warrior ideal remains current: each way keeps the other from its excesses.
At the origin
An educational ideal inherited from the samurai class, still alive in Japanese schools.
The characters
In practice
Balance your week: a share of study, a share of exercise — sacrificing neither.