num_pages: 52
description: A selection of proverbs and traditional sayings from Japan.You can tell a people's character from that people's proverbs. Therefore any friend of the Japanese will know already what he will find here: a sentimentality about flowers and a cynicism about people; a confidence in the eternal and a distrust of the immediate; a seriousness about shrines and a jocularity about priests.
language: English
title: Japanese Proverbs & Traditional Sayings
publisher: Peter Pauper Press