Four-Character Idiom · Reflection & Mortality · Kyojuro Rengoku
天真爛漫
Meaning
A disposition that radiates unaffected, unperformed sincerity — feelings expressed openly with no calculation about how they will land.
飾らず、気取らず、ありのままの純真な感情を外に表現する明るさ。
The Kyojuro Rengoku line
Verbatim from the source article
「うまい！ うまい！ うまい！」
"DELICIOUS! DELICIOUS! DELICIOUS!"
Why it fits Kyojuro Rengoku
Three repetitions of "delicious!" over a station bento, with no irony and no audience-management, is tenshin-ranman in pure form. The Confucian frame values the absence of performance; Rengoku's line is the absence of performance.
Sources
- デジタル大辞泉 — 天真爛漫 (dictionary)
- 精選版 日本国語大辞典 — 天真爛漫 (dictionary)