Perhaps there is no other country as mysterious and paradoxical as Japan, where the spirit of the samurai is still alive today, where tens of millions of people write poetry, and admiration of nature has been elevated to a cult. Feel the soul of the people who, in the 20th century, managed to transform something closed to the whole world state into a fantastically developed power and at the same time preserve the originality of age-old traditions, and this book will help - a collection of sayings of famous Japanese and proverbs that reflect folk wisdom.