蛇の道は蛇 ja no michi wa hebi Snakes Follow The Way Of Serpents

Snakes Follow The Way Of Serpents in Japanese is 蛇の道は蛇 which is read ja no michi wa hebi

蛇の道は蛇 (ja no michi wa hebi): those of one kind know one another's ways.

The saying plays on two readings of one character, 蛇 read ja, the great serpent, and 蛇 read hebi, the ordinary snake: the great serpent's path, the small snake knows it. The line has meant both the expert who knows the trade and the insider who knows a hidden world. Set a thief to catch a thief is this proverb when the kind is thieves; for rice cakes, the rice-cake shop, when the kind is bakers. Buchanan's 1965 title, Snakes Follow the Way of Serpents, keeps two English words for one animal.

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Eri Takase was born and raised in Osaka, Japan, and holds the rank of Shihan, the highest rank in Japanese calligraphy, from the Bokuteki-kai and the Bunka-shodo. About Master Takase