If you see Mt. Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant on New Year’s Day, you will be forever blessed.
More Japanese Proverbs:
Fall six times, stand up seven.
Japanese
Money matters make strangers.
Japanese
Even a superb hawk will not catch game unless it is loosed.
Japanese
True patience consists in bearing what is unbearable.
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The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.
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