人生良好 jinsei ryōkō Life is Good

人生 (jinsei) is a person's life in this world and the span of it, the word for a life taken whole; 良好 (ryōkō) is good in the sense of in good condition, going well. Set together they say the English sentence plainly, life: good, and the plainness is the point: it is our rendering of Life is Good, made to say what the English says without ornament, and a Japanese reader takes it at a glance as a report that all is well.

人生良好 is a sentence for a life where things are going right, or for someone for whom they have started to.

人生良好 is composed of the words 人生 (read jinsei) meaning "life" and 良好 (read ryōkō) meaning "good; favorable".

House Japanese for the English Life is Good: 人生, life, set beside 良好, the word for a thing in good condition. No Japanese book or dictionary prints the four characters as a phrase; the house's design of it is on record from January 2011, and one other calligraphy seller's page offers it by 2015.

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