子供の為に kodomo no tame ni For the Sake of the Children

子供の為に (kodomo no tame ni): for the sake of the children.

子供の為に is a purpose with the verb left off, as in the English. 子供 kodomo is a child or the children, one or many. の為に no tame ni is for the sake of, with the older sense of benefit behind it. What one does for them is left to the reader. Japanese drops the possessor, so the line holds my children and our children at once.

The phrase has no author; its oldest witness is a mother's speech in Chikamatsu Monzaemon's puppet play Soga Kaikeizan of 1718, where she feigns illness for her children's sake, and in 1891 it is in the mouth of Cedric's mother in Wakamatsu Shizuko's translation of Little Lord Fauntleroy.

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