寸善尺魔 Sunzen-shakuma.

  • 解釈:少しよい事があると、次に大きな悪い事が起こり勝ちだ。よい事には悪い事や邪魔が付き纏うものだということ。
  • Literal:Good behavior is 1 "sun" (unit of length), and the wrongdoing is 1 "shaku" (unit of length).
  • Interpretation:A world has more wrong than the good. It is interfered with the good by wrong.
  • 類義:一寸の善には、一尺の魔が伴う。好事(こうじ)魔多し。月に叢雲(むらぐも)、花に風。
GLN 日本の諺・金言・名言 A proverb, a maxim, and a wise saying of Japan.