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酒は礼に始まり乱に終わる sake wa rei ni hajimari ran ni owaru Drink Begins in Courtesy and Ends in Disorder

Japanese Scroll of Drink Begins in Courtesy and Ends in Disorder (sake wa rei ni hajimari ran ni owaru) — Calligraphy by Eri Takase
酒は礼に始まり乱に終わる Original Scroll by Master Calligrapher Eri Takase

Abstract

酒は礼に始まり乱に終わる, sake wa rei ni hajimari ran ni owaru, drink begins in courtesy and ends in disorder, is a proverb of the drinking party, which opens in good form and ends in disorder; its earliest witness in the instruments read is Kyokutei Bakin 曲亭馬琴, who in 1828 closes the fifth part of his 傾城水滸伝 with a note that has 酒は礼にはじまりて乱にをはり, gives it the same year in his 松浦佐用媛石魂録 as what the people of old said, and in 1829 credits it to Zhuang Zhou 莊周, whose 莊子 says of those who drink by the rites that they begin in order and usually end in disorder [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Meiji print calls it an old saying (1887, by the index's snippet) and a proverb (1888–89), a manual of 1901 calls it a proverb of our country from of old, a collection of 1892 files it as Japanese, the dictionary 言海 gives it, without 酒, as the example for 亂, and the proverb dictionaries read here enter it (1910, 1933) [8][9][10][11][12][13][14]; the turned form, 礼に始まり礼に終わる, is printed, in the NDL full text as the sibling history searched it, in sense from 1884 and in words from 1885–86, of gatherings that kept their courtesy, and is the saying the martial arts now share [15], and after the war a book, by the index's snippet, heard the drinking proverb the other way, as a play on 礼に始まり礼に終わる [16]. No English of the Japanese proverb was found in the house's English books or the Internet Archive's full text; of the 莊子's line, the earliest English read here is Giles's of 1889, and Balfour's translation of 1881 was not opened (Sources not seen) [17]. I read it as a Japanese proverb, made on the 莊子's line, whose words keep the 莊子's 亂, disorder, and put 禮, courtesy, where the 莊子 has 治, order.

A reading

The proverb, as Eri brushes it: 酒は礼に始まり乱に終わる. As Bakin's 1828 print writes it, at the leaf: 酒は礼にはじまりて乱にをはり [1].

I read it as a Japanese proverb made on a Chinese line. The 莊子's 人間世 has Confucius say 以禮飲酒者，始乎治，常卒乎亂, those who drink by the rites begin in order and usually end in disorder [7]. The proverb keeps the end of that line, 亂, and changes its beginning: where the 莊子 has 治, the state of the party, the proverb has 禮, what the drinkers do, the manners and forms of the occasion. So, as I read it, it says more sharply than its source that the forms kept at the start do not hold at the end. In Bakin, the earliest witness read, three of his four uses stand beside lust at the close of an episode (1828), beside the remark that few keep the five virtues whole (1828), and beside men and women drinking together (1829) [1][3][5]; the fourth, in 八犬伝, comments on soldiers drinking on into the night (1835 to 1842, below). I take him to use it in the sense that the forms kept at the start do not hold. When he gives it to Zhuang Zhou, the words he gives him are the proverb's, not the 莊子's [5][7].

Two directions are told for the proverb and its pair. In every instrument read (the NDL full text as this history and [15] searched it, and the witnesses listed here) the drinking proverb is the older: Bakin prints it in 1828 and calls it old, and the turned form, 礼に始まり礼に終わる, appears in print, in the NDL full text as the sibling history searched it, in sense from 1884 and in words from 1885–86, of banquets, and in the martial arts from 1907, the earliest instance that sibling history cites [15]. Meiji writers set the two side by side and named the turn: in 1899 an article in the Keiō Gijuku bulletin, by the index's snippet, called the drinking proverb wrong and said drink must begin in courtesy and end in courtesy [18]. After the war a book of regional proverbs, by the index's snippet, said the reverse, that the 乱 form plays on the 礼 form [16]; I take that to be the ear of a time when the martial saying is the one everybody knows. I hold both, and sign the order of the record. No witness read says the proverb was made in Japan on the 莊子's line; Bakin gives it to 莊周 himself, and the step from the 莊子 to Bakin's words is mine.

I sign the reading sake wa rei ni hajimari ran ni owaru, drink begins in courtesy and ends in disorder: 礼 as courtesy, the forms of the occasion, and 乱 as disorder, what 言海 calls 辨別ナクナルコト, losing discernment [12]. Signed, 典.

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Overview

The sense. Searched as a headword at kotobank on 6 November 2026, 酒は礼に始まり乱に終わる, 礼に始まり乱に終わる, 酒は礼に始まり乱に終る and 礼に始まって乱に終わる have no entry. The proverb dictionaries read at the leaf give it as a headword: 藤井乙男's 諺語大辞典 of 1910 under 酒, with no gloss, and under 禮, said of banquets [13][19]; 中野吉平's 俚諺大辞典 of 1933, 【酒は禮に始まり亂に終る】始めは靜肅なれども、終には亂舞すとなり。, at first all is quiet and solemn, but at the end they dance in disorder, it is said [14].

The words. 酒 the デジタル大辞泉 gives first as エチルアルコールを含んだ飲料の総称, the general name for drinks containing ethyl alcohol, and fourth as 酒盛り。酒宴, a drinking party [20]; I read the proverb's 酒 as drink, at the party of the fourth sense. 礼, in the old form 禮, the 大辞泉 gives first as 社会秩序を保ち、人間関係を円滑に維持するために守るべき、社会生活上の規範。礼儀作法・制度など, the norms of social life to be kept so that order holds and relations run smoothly: manners, etiquette, institutions, and as a further sense 敬意を表すために頭を下げること。おじぎ, a bow [21]. 乱, in the old form 亂, the 精選版 日本国語大辞典 gives as みだれること。弁別のなくなること。秩序を失うこと。また、その行為, disorder; losing discernment; losing order; or such conduct, and the earliest example the 日国 cites is a rule on drink: 「好んで酒を飲べからず。〈略〉乱に及ばずの節」 (芭蕉翁行脚掟, in 五七記, 1760); the 大辞泉's example is a banquet too, 「酒宴の興も過ぎて、既に―に入って居る」 (木下尚江) [22]. 始まり and 終わる are to begin and to end, and the witnesses spell them 始り, はじまりて, 初ツて, 終る, をはり and 終わる; they are one proverb. Two old names for drink stand beside it in the witnesses: 狂薬, mad medicine, which the 日国 glosses ( 飲めば正気を失う薬の意 ) 酒をいう, drink, as a medicine that takes away one's senses, the earliest example the 日国 cites わらんべ草 (1660), and the 日国 and the 字通 both cite the 晉書's life of 裴楷 for it [23]; and 狂水, mad water, 心を狂わせる水の意で、酒をいう, the earliest example the 日国 cites 笑註烈子 (1782) [24]. Bakin's 八犬伝 and a police manual of 1893 set the proverb beside them [25][26].

The text in English. No English rendering of the Japanese proverb was found: not in the text layers of the house's English books, and not in the Internet Archive's full text, searched in sixteen phrasings (rei ni hajimari ran ni, begins with courtesy and ends, ends in disorder, drinking begins, and others; the research record's § Sitting 1). A Japanese book on English proverbs of 1957, by the index's snippet, lists it among the Japanese proverbs that show the spirit of Wine is a turncoat; first a friend, then an enemy [27]. Of the 莊子's line, the earliest English read here is Giles's of 1889 (The 莊子 in English, below); Frederic Henry Balfour's translation of the 莊子, of 1881, was not opened (Sources not seen) [17][28].

The historical record

The Chinese ground: the 莊子, Zhu Xi 朱熹, the 論語. In the 莊子's chapter 人間世, Confucius warns the envoy 葉公子高 that things go the way contests and drink go: 且以巧鬭力者，始乎陽，常卒乎陰，泰至則多奇巧；以禮飲酒者，始乎治，常卒乎亂，泰至則多奇樂。凡事亦然，始乎諒，常卒乎鄙, those who match their strength in skill begin in the open and usually end in the dark, and at the extreme there are many strange tricks; those who drink by the rites begin in order and usually end in disorder, and at the extreme there is much wild pleasure; all things are so: they begin in good faith and usually end in meanness [7]. Zhu Xi's gloss on the 詩經's drinking ode 賓之初筵, the guests at the start of the feast, says it in nearly the 莊子's words, without naming it: 此言凡飲酒者常始乎治而卒乎亂也, this says that all who drink usually begin in order and end in disorder [29]; a Japanese translation of 1924 gives, at the same ode, a gloss that follows Zhu Xi's and adds a clause of courtesy his Chinese does not have: 凡そ飮酒者の常態として禮に始まり不禮に終る、治に始まり亂に終る, as is usual with all who drink, they begin in courtesy and end in discourtesy, begin in order and end in disorder [30]. The 論語 says of Confucius at table 唯酒無量，不及亂, only for wine he set no measure, and he did not go as far as disorder [31], and a Meiji novel sets that line beside the proverb (1888, below).

1828. Kyokutei Bakin, 傾城水滸伝. Bakin's 傾城水滸伝, a retelling of the Chinese 水滸伝, came out in parts from 1825, its fourth and fifth parts in 1828 [2]. The fifth part closes with a note of Bakin's on the episode it tells, which, he writes, China had spun out into the novel 金瓶梅. The note turns on drink and lust: 酒は礼にはじまりて乱にをはり, drink begins in courtesy and ends in disorder, and lust, it goes on, rises when the heart is stirred and is no pleasure unless it leads astray [1]. The print writes 礼 and 乱, the forms Eri's three hands also write (Notes).

1828. 松浦佐用媛石魂録, the second part. In the same year Bakin's 松浦佐用媛石魂録, its second part dated 1828 [4], gives the proverb as old: いにしへの人いへる事あり。酒は禮に始りて。亂に終り。人は五常を心に具て。五常を全くする者稀なり, the people of old had a saying: drink begins in courtesy and ends in disorder. Every man has the five constant virtues in his heart, and few keep them whole, as a typeset of 1883 prints it [3].

1829. 近世説美少年録. In the first part of 近世説美少年録 (1829) [6], of men and women drinking together, Bakin gives the proverb a Chinese author: 酒は禮に始りて。亂に終る。と莊周が。いひけんも現宜なるかな, how right Zhuang Zhou was to say that drink begins in courtesy and ends in disorder, and the words that follow, 男女席を同うせる。飲酒は則色の媒, call drink, where men and women sit together, the go-between of lust [5].

1835 to 1842. 南総里見八犬伝. In the ninth part of 南総里見八犬伝, issued from 1835 to 1842 (天保6–13, the library's issue note), a company of soldiers drinks, and Bakin comments, of soldiers drinking on into the night: 現是酒は狂藥にて礼に始り乱に終る, truly, drink is a mad medicine: it begins in courtesy and ends in disorder [25].

Before 1828. No witness of the proverb older than Bakin's was found, and the absence is only as wide as the instruments: the National Diet Library's full-text index, all access levels, oldest first, which reaches Edo prints on short queries, for 亂に終, 乱にをは, 酒は禮に始 and にはじまりて亂 [32]; the 国書データベース's full-text search of its transcribed items, seven queries (six forms of the proverb and 酒盛), with single-word controls that returned rows; the typesets of the Edo proverb collections 俚言集覧, 毛吹草 and 諺苑, each searched in the index with a control that it found; and the 1701 collection 諺草, read at its headwords on the page images in the sections where the proverb would stand, 禮 and 左 [33]. The typesets of the collection 譬喩尽 (preface 1786) have no text layer in the index, so their silence is not a null (Sources not seen).

1887 to 1893. An old saying, a proverb. A collection of compositions by pupils of Osaka's public primary schools, of 1887, by the index's snippet, writes 古語ニ曰ク酒ハ禮ニ始マリ乱ニ終ルト, an old saying says: drink begins in courtesy and ends in disorder [8]. A novel of December 1888, in a chapter headed 壯士の乱暴, the young toughs' rowdiness, sets the 論語's line on Confucius and wine beside a drinking party: 禮に初ツて亂に終る壯年社會の一酒宴, a drinking party of the young men's world that began in courtesy and ended in disorder, and a few columns on applies to it 亂に終るの語, the words "ends in disorder" [34]. A Japanese translation of a novel by アルノー, by 条野採菊, issued in 1888 and 1889, writes 酒盛も禮に始まりて亂に終ると諺にいふ如く, as the proverb says, a drinking party too begins in courtesy and ends in disorder; the words are the translator's Japanese, and the original was not read [9]. 大槻文彦's dictionary 言海, in its fourth volume (1891), gives it, without 酒, as the example for 亂: ミダレ。辨別ナクナルコト。「禮ニ始マリ、ーニ終ル」 [12]. A collection of Japanese, Chinese and Western proverbs of 1892 marks ●酒は禮に始まり亂に終る as a Japanese proverb, and sets beside it, as Chinese, ◎酒極まれば則ち亂れ、樂み極まれば則ち悲しむ, when drink is at its height there is disorder; when pleasure is at its height, sorrow [11]. A manual for police constables of 1893, under drinking, writes 夫レ酒ハ禮ニ始マリ亂ニ終ルモノニテ諺ニ之ヲ狂水ト云ヘリ, drink is a thing that begins in courtesy and ends in disorder, and the proverb calls it mad water: the 諺 it names is 狂水 (之 is 酒), and the line before it is not marked as a proverb [26].

1884 onward. The proverb turned. From 1884, of a doctors' party that went courteously from beginning to end, and from 1885–86 in the words begins in courtesy and ends in courtesy, the turned form is printed of gatherings that kept their courtesy, in the NDL full text as the sibling history searched it; the study of that saying traces it into school sport and, from 1907, the martial arts [15].Japanese Scroll of Begins and Ends with Courtesy (rei ni hajimari, rei ni owaru) — Calligraphy by Eri TakaseBegins and Ends with Courtesy礼に始まり礼に終わるrei ni hajimari, rei ni owaru In 1890, in the magazine 都の花, by the index's snippets, a speaker gives the drinking proverb as Zhuang Zhou's words, 實に千古の名言, truly a famous saying of all ages, says that most social gatherings do not escape it, and asks that this one begin in courtesy and end in courtesy [35]. In 1899 an article in the Keiō Gijuku bulletin said it outright: 酒は禮に始まり亂に終ると云ふことを言ふがそれも間違つた話、酒は禮に始まつて禮に終らなければ成らぬ, they say drink begins in courtesy and ends in disorder, but that is wrong: drink must begin in courtesy and end in courtesy (the index's snippet) [18].

1901. A manual of etiquette. In its chapter on banquets, 普通礼法 writes 酒は禮に始まりて亂に終るとは、我が國の古よりなる諺にして、此の諺が宴會の實況を穿てるものと思へば、寒からざるに肌膚の粟立するを覺ゆるなり, that drink begins in courtesy and ends in disorder is a proverb of our country from of old, and when I think how exactly it catches what banquets are, my skin crawls though it is not cold [10].

1910. The dictionary of proverbs. 藤井乙男's 諺語大辞典 enters the proverb twice: under 酒, 【酒ハ禮ニ始マリ亂ニ終ル】, with no gloss [13], and under 禮, 【禮ニ始リ亂ニ終ル】酒宴についていふ。, said of banquets [19].

1915. Tea against drink. A tea manual of 1915, by the index's snippet, after a kyōka (…といふ狂歌の通り, as the kyōka has it), sets the two forms against each other: 禮に始まつて亂に終るのは酒飮の癖ですが…茶人は禮に始まつて禮に終るのですから, to begin in courtesy and end in disorder is the drinker's habit … the tea man begins in courtesy and ends in courtesy [36].

1933. 俚諺大辞典. 中野吉平's dictionary of proverbs enters it under 飲食, food and drink, with a gloss and no source: 【酒は禮に始まり亂に終る】始めは靜肅なれども、終には亂舞すとなり。 [14].

1957. An English pair. 磯川治一's 『英語の諺』, by the index's snippet, gives under Wine is a turncoat; first a friend, then an enemy (酒は裏切者である。最初は友人で,次いで敵となる): この諺のこころを示す日本の諺としては「酒は礼に始まり,乱に終る」「一杯は人酒を飲み,二杯は酒酒を飲み,三杯は酒人を飲む」などがある, Japanese proverbs that show this proverb's spirit include "drink begins in courtesy and ends in disorder" and "the first cup the man drinks the wine, the second the wine drinks the wine, the third the wine drinks the man" [27].

After 1945. Tea, and the order heard the other way. A writer on tea of 1984, by the index's snippet, writes 酒は礼に始まり乱に終る。茶は礼に始まり礼に終る、といわれる。誰が言いだしたのかよくわからない (the index's text layer reads よ!わからない), it is said that drink begins in courtesy and ends in disorder, and tea begins in courtesy and ends in courtesy; who first said it is not clear [37]. A book of regional proverbs of 1994, by the index's snippet (its heading shows no 酒), writes 礼に始まり乱に終わる「礼に始まり礼に終わる」をもじっている, "begins in courtesy and ends in disorder" plays on "begins in courtesy and ends in courtesy" [16].

The 莊子 in English

1889. Herbert A. Giles. So on festive occasions, the drinking which is in the beginning orderly enough, degenerates into riot and disorder. Festivity is pushed too far. [17]

1891. James Legge. Parties drinking according to the rules at first observe good order, but always end with disorder; as their excitement grows excessive, their fun becomes uproarious, with a footnote, See the Shih, II, vii, 6, which sends the reader to the 詩經's ode 賓之初筵, the ode Zhu Xi glossed with this line [28][29].

1948. Lin Yutang. In a note to the 老子 on being careful at the end as at the beginning: Those who drink at a formal banquet begin in order and end in disorder, and in overdoing it, the result is intemperate pleasure. His at a formal banquet appears to stand for 以禮, by the rites, and his later sentence, What begins in propriety often ends in impropriety, appears to render the 莊子's 始乎諒，常卒乎鄙, not 禮 [38][7].

All three have order at the start (orderly enough, good order, in order), as the Chinese has 治; the courtesy at the start is the Japanese wording's, the proverb's and the 1924 Japanese rendering of Zhu Xi's [30].

Notes

Bakin's 莊周. The 莊子 has 始乎治，常卒乎亂, begin in order … end in disorder; Bakin's 莊周 says 禮に始りて。亂に終る, begins in courtesy … ends in disorder [7][5]. He names the source of the thought and gives it in the proverb's words. Whether Bakin made the proverb or found it, the record cannot say: in the year of its first witness he calls it what the people of old said [3].

The text as brushed. Eri's four hands each write the proverb whole in two columns, 酒は礼に始まり and 乱に終わる, ending in the kana わる; the cursive hand writes 禮 and 亂, and the other three 礼 and 乱. The work order's line is 酒は礼に始まり乱に終わる.

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Japanese Scroll of Drink Begins in Courtesy and Ends in Disorder (sake wa rei ni hajimari ran ni owaru) in a block font by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase
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Japanese Scroll of Drink Begins in Courtesy and Ends in Disorder (sake wa rei ni hajimari ran ni owaru) in Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase's own style (Eri's Choice)
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Japanese Scroll of Drink Begins in Courtesy and Ends in Disorder (sake wa rei ni hajimari ran ni owaru) in a semi-cursive font by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase
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Japanese Scroll of Drink Begins in Courtesy and Ends in Disorder (sake wa rei ni hajimari ran ni owaru) in a semi-cursive font by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase
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Sources not seen

千葉万平, 『和英格言俚諺辞典』 (1955; NDL 2479811, not open outside Japan): the full-text index lists it under 酒は禮に始 without a window, and no snippet opens. A Japanese–English dictionary of proverbs, it may give the earliest English of the proverb.

Frederic Henry Balfour, translator, The Divine Classic of Nan-hua; Being the Works of Chuang Tsze, Taoist Philosopher (Shanghai and London, 1881; https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100328385): full view at HathiTrust, which lists two copies, whose pages refused a plain fetch here, and not at the Internet Archive. Earlier than Giles's, it may give the earliest English of the 莊子's line.

『譬喩尽』 (松葉軒東井 編, preface 1786; https://kokusho.nijl.ac.jp/work/574163): the 国書データベース lists one manuscript copy, at 龍谷大学 大宮図書館, without an image, and the index holds no text layer for its typesets. It may carry the proverb before 1828.

『諺草』 (1701): its section 羅, and the body text under each headword, where a proverb may be quoted in passing, were not read.

A reader with access to any of these is invited to write to Takase Studios at Tim@Takase.com.

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Authors

Tim Jackowski (Systems Architect, Takase Studios, LLC) · 典 Ten (Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5, Takase Studios, LLC)

AI written · Ten wrote the history. Tim Jackowski commissioned it and answers for it.

Checked · Takase Studios (an address check by script), 2026-11-06, citations — the cited web addresses opened and the quoted words looked for at each: 7 claims at the mirror, 6 answered with the words sought, 0 differed, 1 not resolved by the mirror's numbering and confirmed at the page image; the rest outside its reach (web pages, snippet items and page images, read by eye) · two fresh-context readers per round (Claude), 2026-11-06, every claim in the page's summary block traced to its source, claim by claim: round 1 FAIL on one wrong fact (the English of the Zhuangzi's line dated from 1889, where Balfour's translation of 1881 exists), corrected; round 2 FAIL on one wrong fact (the count of Bakin's uses), corrected; round 3 PASS, both; wordings applied

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Cite as: Tim Jackowski and Ten, "Philology of 酒は礼に始まり乱に終わる (sake wa rei ni hajimari ran ni owaru)," Takase Studios, 2026, https://takase.com/library/philology/sake-wa-rei-ni-hajimari-ran-ni-owaru.