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@ModernDayBartleby Er, aren't four-letter idioms more a Chinese thing?
@riley @ModernDayBartleby @bookstodon
Another popular yojijukugo:
Junin-toiro (十人十色)
Meaning: Different people like different things, everyone has their own ideas and tastes, different strokes for different folks, several men means several minds.
This is just a list of some four character words, not necessarily idiomatic #yojijukugo.
"Yojijukugo in the broad sense refers to Japanese compound words consisting of four kanji characters, which may contain an idiomatic meaning or simply be a compound noun. However, in the narrow or strict sense, the term refers only to four-kanji compounds that have a particular (idiomatic) meaning, which cannot be inferred from the meanings of the components that make them up."
@riley @ModernDayBartleby @bookstodon
They're definitely a Japanese 'thing'.
I often think about the dialog between the human and the material. Architecture should be placed in this special dialog. But in fact, today’s architecture destroys richness, and the human is left isolated from the earth as the bountiful place where the various materials gather. In this exhibition at the Old State Tobacco Factory in Athens, I would like to show how I create a dialog with materials. I am drawn to the dialog with soft materials: softness always heals me as it reminds me of my mot
eMarginalia
Riley S. Faelan
earthling
eribosot
Ulrich Plate