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Inchworm シャクトリムシ 尺取虫 Means Edo World Fallacious Protean

Lemma inchworm
Rank 92134
Frequency 1
Japanese シャクトリムシ
Commentary 尺取虫
Example(eng) It means that Edo is the world of the fallacious, protean, where people circle around a ring like an inchworm does, and suffer by tying themselves up like a silkworm does within their cocoon.
Example(Jpn) 虚偽の世界、流転の世界、尺取虫が丸くなって丸いものを廻るように流転し、蚕の繭の如く自らを縛りつけ苦しむ世界が穢土だという。
Source Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

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