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Proverb; Abbreviation
you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate (will recite sutras untaught)
Named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one
bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink
expert (technical) knowledge; expertise
Proverb
laugh and grow fat; good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile
to close the door (to); to shut the door (to); to exclude
ignorance outside of one's own field; overspecialization; one-trick pony
to keep a fine house; to put up a front; to make the front of the house nice (and be pretentious about it)
Proverb
you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate will recite sutras untaught
