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What a Japanese person actually thinksGenuinely lovely as a phrase, and genuinely dated as an ideal. To younger Japanese women it can read as the whole set of expectations they're trying to get out from under.
Meaning
- Literally
- Yamato (ancient Japan) + fringed pink flower
- Actually
- The idealised Japanese woman: modest, graceful, quietly strong, self-sacrificing. Also the nickname of the national women's football team.
Scores
Naturalness●●●●●
Real, well-known phrase.
Coolness●●●●●
Four characters, elegant, with a flower at the centre. The content is the question.
Watch out
- mediumThe ideal it names includes deference and self-effacement. Worn by a non-Japanese woman it also reads as claiming an explicitly ethnic ideal.
- lowIt shares the 大和 element with 大和魂 and carries a faint echo of the same nationalist register.
Get this instead
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凛
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dignified; bearing oneself with cold clarity and graceThe quality people usually mean — composed strength — in one striking character, with none of the political freight.
On skin
大和撫子
Orientation: vertical
Mincho.