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泉
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Work of art, literature, music, etc. name
Akitsu Springs (1947 novel by Shinji Fujiwara, 1962 film)
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Work of art, literature, music, etc. name
Kotoba no Izumi (Japanese dictionary; publ. 1898)
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Proverb
better starve than fatten on ill-gotten wealth; don't lower yourself to unjust acts, no matter how desperate you are; refraining to drink from a spring called Robber's Spring even if thirsty
Examples
渇しても盗泉の水は飲まず。
The eagle does not catch flies.
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Historical term
Izumi (former province located in the southwest of present-day Osaka Prefecture)
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Mythology
Yomotsu Hirasaka (slope that leads to the land of the dead)
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Historical term
knife money; bronze coin of ancient China, shaped like an opened straight razor
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to be resurrected; to be resuscitated; to be rehabilitated; to be revived
