111Japanese quotation 名言
花は盛りに、月は隈なきをのみ見るものかは
はなはさかりに、つきはくまなきをのみみるものかはHana wa sakari ni, tsuki wa kumanaki o nomi miru mono ka wa
“Should we look at blossoms only in full bloom, at the moon only when it is clear?”
The meaning
Beauty is not only in perfection: the promising bud, the falling flower, the veiled moon have their own grace. Loving the unfinished too widens the world infinitely.
At the origin
A famous passage from the "Tsurezuregusa" (14th century) by Yoshida Kenkō.
The characters
- 花 hanablossoms
- は watopic marker
- 盛り sakarifull bloom
- に
- 、
- 月
- は
- 隈なき
- を
- のみ
- 見る
- もの
- かは
はParticleMarks the topic: what the sentence is about — “as for…”.
In practice
Find the beauty of something imperfect, beginning or ending.