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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

喜色満面

きしょく まんめん
kishoku manmen

One of the steps of my yoji research, as everybody should be painfully aware by now, is doing the google image search. It's interesting to see what trends or patterns these searches reveal. Some yoji are strongly associated with certain sports for example (like 百発百中 and kyudo, or darts), but no matter the yoji, you're pretty much always guaranteed to get pictures that represent the two most prevalent kinds of sites on the internet: pornography and people who blog about their pets.

Sometimes you kind can of tell what you're gonna get in a search, and sometimes you can't. Today, for example, I was surprised to see tons and tons and tons of pictures about... fishing.

Definition:
喜びが顔全体に表れていること。
Translation:
1. All Smiles.

I guess somewhere along the line this became the go-to-phrase for describing someone who's happy with their catch?

I associate it more with 破顔一笑. See what you can come up with for your own uses.

例文:彼女に結婚を申し込んで、いい返事をもらってから喜色満面です。
Ever since he asked his girl to marry him and she said "Yes," he's been nothing but smiles. 

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