16 How to Say “emotionally composed / calm” in Japanese

The Japanese expression “こころによゆうがある” describes a person who remains emotionally composed, calm, and unhurried. It is often used when someone can handle situations without stress, respond thoughtfully, and maintain a relaxed mindset even when things become busy or challenging.

emotionally composed / calm

Then he pressed his face close to the window and watched the fire on the hearth. 

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

モウグリは ひを じっとみた。

  • modifier: 
  • 火を

He saw the husbandman’s wife get up and feed it in the night with black lumps. 

のうふの つまが ひに くろいかたまりを あたえた。

  • predicate: 
  • 与える

And when the morning came and the mists were all white and cold, he saw the man’s child pick up a wicker pot plastered inside with earth, fill it with lumps of red-hot charcoal, put it under his blanket, and go out to tend the cows in the byre. 

こどもが カゴを すみでいっぱいにして、ブランケットのしたにいれて、そとにでた。

  • predicate: 
  • いっぱいにする
  • 入れる
  • 外に出る

“Is that all?” said Mowgli. “If a cub can do it, there is nothing to fear.” 

「こどもが できるなら、こわくない」

  • predicate: 
  • 怖くない

So he strode round the corner and met the boy, took the pot from his hand, and disappeared into the mist while the boy howled with fear. 

モウグリは しょうねんから カゴを とった。

  • predicate: 
  • 取る

“They are very like me,” said Mowgli, blowing into the pot as he had seen the woman do. 

「かれらは わたしに そっくりだ」

  • predicate: 
  • そっくりだ

“This thing will die if I do not give it things to eat”; and he dropped twigs and dried bark on the red stuff. 

モウグリは こえだを すみのうえに おとした。

  • modifier: 
  • 小枝を炭の上に

Halfway up the hill he met Bagheera with the morning dew shining like moonstones on his coat.

おかを のぼる とちゅうで、
モウグリは バギーラと あった。

  • modifier: 
  • 丘を登る途中で

“Akela has missed,” said the Panther. 

「アキーラが しっぱいした」

  • predicate: 
  • 失敗する

“They would have killed him last night, but they needed thee also. They were looking for thee on the hill.” 

「オオカミたちは おまえを さがしていた」

  • predicate: 
  • 探す

“I was among the plowed lands. I am ready. See!” Mowgli held up the fire-pot.

モウグリは ひのカゴを もちあげた。

“Good! Now, I have seen men thrust a dry branch into that stuff, and presently the Red Flower blossomed at the end of it. Art thou not afraid?” 

「にんげんが それに えだを おしつけると、
レッドフラワーが えだのさきに さいた」

  • predicate: 
  • 押し付ける
  • 咲く

“No. Why should I fear? I remember now—if it is not a dream—how, before I was a Wolf, I lay beside the Red Flower, and it was warm and pleasant.” 

「わたしは レッドフラワーのそばで よこになったことがある。
あたたかくて、ここちよかった」

All that day Mowgli sat in the cave tending his fire pot and dipping dry branches into it to see how they looked. 

いちにちじゅう、モウグリは ひのカゴの せわをした。

He found a branch that satisfied him, and in the evening when Tabaqui came to the cave and told him rudely enough that he was wanted at the Council Rock, he laughed till Tabaqui ran away. 

タバキが やってきたとき、
モウグリは こころによゆうがあった。

  • predicate: 
  • 心に余裕がある
  • 心に余裕がある(こころによゆうがある, emotionally composed / calm)

The Japanese expression “こころによゆうがある” describes a person who remains emotionally composed, calm, and unhurried. It is often used when someone can handle situations without stress, respond thoughtfully, and maintain a relaxed mindset even when things become busy or challenging.

Then Mowgli went to the Council, still laughing.

そのあと モウグリは カウンシルへ むかった。

Referenced from: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

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