Life in Every Breath (hakuiki hitotsu ni mo seimei ga yadori)
吐く息一つにも生命が宿り (hakuiki hitotsu ni mo seimei ga yadori): life dwells in every breath. From "The Last Samurai", hand-brushed by Master Eri Takase.
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Description
The Japanese phrase 吐く息一つにも生命が宿り was made popular in the movie "The Last Samurai" and this is a direct quote. The phrase is composed of the word 吐く息 (read hakuiki) meaning "one's breath", 一つ (read hitotsu) being a counter for "one". So this is "one breath". The grammatical element にも (read nimo) means "even in". So far we have the phrase hakuiki hitotsu nimo meaning "even in one breath", "in each breath" or "in every breath". The next word is 生命 (read seimei) meaning "one's life; one's existence" and が (read ga) is a grammatical element specifying the previous word as the subject of the verb. The verb yadori is the present form of 宿る (read yadoru) meaning to "to dwell; to exist within".
This poetic phrase captures the idea that one's entire life can come down to a single breath. This is the perfect gift for any fan of the movie "The Last Samurai" or a student of Bushido, The Way of the Warrior.
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