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On a stone for three years

石の上にも三年 (ishi no ue ni mo sannen)

石の上にも三年 (ishi no ue ni mo sannen): three years, even on a stone. Sit long enough even on a cold stone and it grows warm; endurance is repaid. The six characters name only the sitting, and the warming has been left to the hearer since the seventeenth century. The first dated sentence is Ihara Saikaku's of 1694, opening a chapter of advice to tradesmen: do not change the place you have grown used to; the stone was a shop and the three years the time for custom to warm. The dictionaries report it in the first printed proverb collection of 1638.

Philology of 石の上にも三年

On a stone for three years (石の上にも三年) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
On a stone for three years 石の上にも三年 ishi no ue ni mo sannen Block Vertical VB6C
On a stone for three years (石の上にも三年) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
On a stone for three years 石の上にも三年 ishi no ue ni mo sannen Cursive Vertical VC6B
On a stone for three years (石の上にも三年) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
On a stone for three years 石の上にも三年 ishi no ue ni mo sannen Design Vertical VD6B
On a stone for three years (石の上にも三年) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
On a stone for three years 石の上にも三年 ishi no ue ni mo sannen Semi-Cursive Vertical VS5C
On a stone for three years (石の上にも三年) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
On a stone for three years 石の上にも三年 ishi no ue ni mo sannen Semi-Cursive Vertical VS6C
On a stone for three years (石の上にも三年) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
On a stone for three years 石の上にも三年 ishi no ue ni mo sannen Block Horizontal HB5A
On a stone for three years (石の上にも三年) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
On a stone for three years 石の上にも三年 ishi no ue ni mo sannen Cursive Horizontal HC3A
On a stone for three years (石の上にも三年) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
On a stone for three years 石の上にも三年 ishi no ue ni mo sannen Design Horizontal HD3A
On a stone for three years (石の上にも三年) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
On a stone for three years 石の上にも三年 ishi no ue ni mo sannen Semi-Cursive Horizontal HS5A
On a stone for three years (石の上にも三年) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
On a stone for three years 石の上にも三年 ishi no ue ni mo sannen Semi-Cursive Horizontal HS5B

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