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竹
Idiomatic expression
clear-cut and straightforward
Idiomatic expression
(of a person) forward-thinking; honest; upright; frank
small wooden Japanese toy that flies when spun between the palms of one's hands
Slang
weird; odd
Work of art, literature, music, etc. name
Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter)
Idiomatic expression
childhood friend; old playmate
similar things turning up one after another; bamboo shoots after rain
Liancourt Rocks dispute (territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea)
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; group of 3rd-century Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians
Idiomatic expression
to sew a fox's skin to the lion's; to graft a bamboo shoot on a tree
takenoko nyokki; group game in which players put their hands together and try to raise them while saying "nyokki" without speaking over anyone else until only one player (the loser) remains
selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)
tactics of fighting a technologically advanced adversary with primitive weapons; sole reliance on simple determination (naive spiritualism) in fighting an overwhelming foe
Product name
Taketori-no-Okina no Monogatari (alternate name for Taketori Monogatari: The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter)
Historical term; Named after Harajuku clothing store Boutique Takenoko
Takenoko Tribe; teenagers who dressed flamboyantly and danced in Harajuku, Tokyo, from the late 1970s to the mid 1980s