The Vocabulary of Togetherness

Ichiren takushō (一蓮托生): one lotus. In Buddhism, being reborn on the same lotus flower in paradise. Today, sharing actions and fate to the end, whatever the result, as in shinu mo ikiru mo zen’in ichiren takushō da, live or die, we all share one fate.

Onaji kama no meshi o kū (同じ釜の飯を食う): to eat rice from the same pot. Comrades who ate from the same pot feel close to one another. It is also used for people who worked in the same workplace.

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