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[For Seniors] Recommended for Kakizome! Introducing Popular Four-Character Idioms and Their Meanings

Social worker / Care workermoko
My name is Moko, a mother of three who admired my mother and worked in the care industry as a care worker and as a medical social worker (MSW) in a hospital. I will be drawing on my previous experience to write mainly about caregiving. Thank you in advance.

For New Year celebrations, there has long been a tradition of writing auspicious four-character idioms (yojijukugo) as the first calligraphy of the year.

Doing kakizome together with older adults not only offers the simple joy of moving one’s hands, but also creates special moments to discuss the meanings and origins imbued in the characters.

We have gathered heartwarming idioms such as “笑門来福” (When laughter is at the gate, good fortune comes) and those associated with older adults, like “鶴寿千歳” (a crane’s thousand-year longevity) and “黄花晩節” (the late-blooming chrysanthemum; dignified virtue in one’s later years).

Savor the feel of the brush, the scent of the ink, and the quiet flow of time as you guide the strokes, writing each character carefully and with sincerity.

[For Seniors] Recommended for New Year’s Calligraphy! Introducing Popular Four-Character Idioms and Their Meanings (51–60)

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

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Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Seishin-ittō is a four-character idiom with a positive meaning: “effort will surely be rewarded.” It’s a phrase I’d like to offer to anyone steadily working toward a goal.

It conveys that if you focus your mind and make a dedicated effort, you can accomplish anything.

On the way toward high ambitions, you may hit daunting walls and experience setbacks.

Yet strong will and effort can turn even the impossible into possible.

It’s a recommended phrase to give you a push when you feel like giving up.

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Scattered blossoms, fallen leaves

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Scattered blossoms, fallen leaves

The flowers that bloom in full glory in spring will eventually be scattered by the wind, and their leaves will wither and fall from the branches.

Life is like those flowers—ever fleeting and constantly changing.

The four-character idiom “hika rakuyō” (flying blossoms, falling leaves) expresses this impermanence of the world.

Everything we take for granted is transient; nothing lasts forever.

Because things are always changing, it seems to teach us to cherish each moment as it comes.

In this world of flying blossoms and falling leaves, we don’t know what tomorrow will bring.

All the more reason to treasure each day and live joyfully.

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In conclusion

As we prepare to welcome the New Year, would you like to join me in writing moving four-character idioms for our first calligraphy of the year? The flowing motions of brush calligraphy calm the mind, and the rich experience and wisdom of older adults become embodied in the characters.

Encounters with words that resonate across generations—such as “fall down seven times, get up eight” (七転八起) and “a bright future” (前途洋々)—will become irreplaceable memories etched in the heart.