Four-Character Idiom · People & Bonds · Kyojuro Rengoku

ごうほうらいらく Gōhō Rairaku "Big-Hearted and Unfussed" JLPT beyond Educated vocabulary

Meaning

Large in spirit, generous in mood, and entirely uninterested in petty details — the disposition of someone too unconstrained inside themselves to be small with others.

度量が広く快活で、小さなことに全くこだわらない性格。

The Kyojuro Rengoku moment

Rengoku addresses Tanjiro by the wrong name without embarrassment when corrected — and corrects it just as cheerfully. The mistake is not a failing in his frame.

Why it fits Kyojuro Rengoku

Calling someone the wrong name and not minding when corrected is a small thing — and the smallness is the point. Gōhō-rairaku names the kind of bigness that has no shelf-space for that sort of self-consciousness.

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