# 🇯🇵 NOTES - 日本語 oru - to fold shokupan (milkbread) anpan (bean bread) kuroko (stagehands who dress in all black and interact with the actors) Omakase (Japanese: お任せ, Hepburn: o-makase) is a Japanese phrase that means "I'll leave it up to you" (from Japanese "to entrust" (任せる, makaseru)). Chabudai gaeshi is a Japanese phrase meaning to flip the chabudai. “shōjo bitchi”. “Bitchi” (ビッチ) kankō kōgai (tourism pollution) “ukeireru” = “acceptance” ; Ukeireru goes beyond self-acceptance. It’s about accepting the realities that surround you, too – your relationships, your roles in the communities you’re a part of, and the situations you face – rather than fighting them Nature & Forest Therapy was inspired by the Japanese practice known as "Shinrin-yoku." or forest bathing Mokusatsu https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/tech-journals/assets/files/mokusatsu.pdf きつえん (rōmaji kitsuen) 喫煙: smoking "Katamari" is the Japanese word for "clod" or "lump," "Shinrin-yoku", literally translated to "forest bathing" Shinrin-yoku is a term that means "taking in the forest atmosphere" or "forest bathing Mono no aware (物の哀れ), literally "the pathos of things", and also translated as "an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera", is a Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence (無常 mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life. omamori - japanese good luck charm Kakizome (書き初め, literally "first writing") is a Japanese term for the first calligraphy written at the beginning of a year, traditionally on January 2. wabi sabi is an aesthetic that finds beauty in things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete “koke” meaning moss and “dama” meaning ball sento 銭湯：literally cash hot water furo no hi 風呂の日, Day of Bath to deepen the relationship among the family to take a bath together. omiyage aizuchi (相槌) https://www.fluentu.com/blog/japanese/aizuchi/ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216607000495 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backchannel_(linguistics) gemba - Japanese, meaning: “the real place” kodokushi - japanese lonely deaths Shoshin (初心) is a concept in Zen Buddhism meaning "beginner's mind". Wabi-sabi (侘寂?) represents Japanese aesthetics and a Japanese world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete".[2] It is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence (三法印 sanbōin?), specifically impermanence (無常 mujō?), suffering (苦 ku?) and emptiness or absence of self-nature (空 kū?). Ikigai is a Japanese concept that explains how a person can enjoy life kuri kuri - breast fondling furi furi - flapping On (Japanese): A feeling of moral indebtedness, relating to a favor or blessing given by others. Yuru-chara (Japanese: ゆるキャラ, Hepburn: yuru kyara) is a Japanese term for a category of mascot characters; usually created to promote a place or region, event, organisation or business. shichōson bōsai gyōsei musen hōsō (local government disaster administration wireless broadcast), or bōsai musen (disaster wireless) for short; https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/2396eh/why_does_a_song_play_across_the_town_every_day_at/ Tanuki golden balls - historically scrotum for gold leaf making The Japanese Concept of “Yōyū” (Abundant Heart) * “The inspiration I’ve always drawn from Japan is that the lowest you can fall is not that low,” he says. “Whereas I grew up watching people fall really, really low — frequently, and kind of hopelessly.” * His explanation for why similar levels of economic decline produce such different outcomes hinges on the Japanese term yoyū, which conveys a sense of sufficiency: enough time, enough money, enough energy. As Mod puts it, yoyū is “the space in your heart to accept another person… another situation, another context.”