新たな始まり aratana hajimari A New Beginning
新たな始まり (aratana hajimari), a new beginning, is plain modern Japanese, a noun phrase that reads as a title. Its single page in the National Diet Library's digitized books is a philosopher's: a 1948 translation of Feuerbach, where logic is a new beginning, beginning from the very first.
Abstract
新たな始まり, aratana hajimari, a new beginning, is grammatical modern Japanese, a noun phrase that reads as a title, with no text behind it. Its words are old, 新た in the 万葉集; the phrase itself has a single page in the National Diet Library's digitized books, a 1948 translation of Feuerbach's critique of Hegel.
Overview
The sense. Standard Japanese, a free phrase: a new beginning, a noun phrase that reads as a title.
The words. 新た arata, new, is in the 万葉集 [1], and 始まり hajimari, a beginning, is the noun of the verb to begin [2]. な joins them as an attributive.
The text in English. A new beginning and 新たな始まり match word for word [3].
The historical record
1948. 新たな始まり, once. The phrase's single page before the corpus ends is a philosopher's: Sano Fumio's Feuerbach, in the Critique of Hegel, where logic 一の新たな始まりであり、當初から始まり, is a new beginning, beginning from the very first. It is an ordinary phrase that happened to find print late; no source is needed for it [4].
What is not a source. No text stands behind the phrase. It is plain modern Japanese for an English motto.
Today. A new beginning is the stock of the English motivational register and has no English author.
A reading
Honest modern Japanese, and it stands as that: a phrase the language can make at any moment, which found its way into print by way of a philosopher's logic rather than a motto.
References
- 「新た」, デジタル大辞泉・精選版日本国語大辞典, at kotobank. https://kotobank.jp/word/新た
- 「始まり」, デジタル大辞泉・精選版日本国語大辞典, at kotobank. https://kotobank.jp/word/始まり
- JMdict (EDRDG), 「新た」, at jisho. https://jisho.org/word/新た
- フォイエルバッハ, 『ヘーゲル哲学の批判』, 佐野文夫訳, 岩波書店, 1948, scan 22. https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1039043/1/22