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Sontaku
is a concept in Japanese that could be translated as "surmising the feelings of others" or "acting upon the implicit desires of another person." This term implies an ability to assess how others are feeling, and to respond accordingly. The character "忖" signifies something like "guess" and "度" implies something akin to "extent." Although this word has ancient origins, it was not until 2017 that it became widely used in relation to Japanese political issues, and ''sontaku'' was selected by the Japanese publisher Jiyu Kokuminsha as the New Word of The Year in 2017. According to Hayashi Kaori, (2018, par. 7): Katada Takumi (2017, p. 104) takes this a step further, describing ''sontaku'' as an essential part of Japanese work culture. History Kaminaga Akatsuki suggests that the first reference to ''sontaku'' was in China's earliest book of poetry, the Shijing. It also appeared in the Heian period Sugawara Family Collection (菅家後集). This word was occasionally used dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Of Poetry
The ''Classic of Poetry'', also ''Shijing'' or ''Shih-ching'', translated variously as the ''Book of Songs'', ''Book of Odes'', or simply known as the ''Odes'' or ''Poetry'' (; ''Shī''), is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BCE. It is one of the "Five Classics" traditionally said to have been compiled by Confucius, and has been studied and memorized by scholars in China and neighboring countries over two millennia. It is also a rich source of '' chengyu'' (four-character classical idioms) that are still a part of learned discourse and even everyday language in modern Chinese. Since the Qing dynasty, its rhyme patterns have also been analysed in the study of Old Chinese phonology. Name Early references refer to the anthology as the ''300 Poems'' (''shi''). ''The Odes'' first became known as a ''jīng'', or a "classic book", in the canonical sense, as part of the Han Dynasty official adoption of Confuc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
