<entry id="2222102" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
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<ent_seq>2418790</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>袖振り合うも他生の縁</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>袖振り合うも多生の縁</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>袖ふりあうも他生の縁</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>袖触り合うも多生の縁</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>そでふりあうもたしょうのえん</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<misc>&proverb;</misc>
<gloss>even a chance meeting can lead to a deep bond</gloss>
<gloss>even a chance meeting is due to the karma of a previous life</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2008-11-21 00:00:00" stat="A">
<upd_detl>Entry created</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2017-12-08 10:07:53" stat="A">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,2 +12,2 @@
-&lt;misc&gt;&amp;id;&lt;/misc&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;A meeting by chance is preordained&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;proverb;&lt;/misc&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;a meeting by chance is preordained&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2019-04-13 14:32:47" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>daij</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;袖触合うも他生の縁&lt;/keb&gt;
@@ -13 +16 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;a meeting by chance is preordained&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;even a chance meeting can lead to a deep bond&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2019-04-13 14:34:32" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>also 多生 and incorrecrly as 多少 accorsing 
to yahoo dics</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2019-04-17 20:09:25" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-02-17 00:43:57" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>｛袖／そで｝｛振り／ふり／触り／触｝｛合う／あう｝も｛他生／多生／多少｝の縁

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 袖振り合うも他生の縁　 │ 3,947 │ 76.6% │ - (daijr, obunsha)
│ 袖ふりあうも他生の縁　 │   640 │ 12.4% │ - add
│ 袖触り合うも多生の縁　 │   168 │  3.3% │ - add (shinmeikai)
│ 袖触りあうも他生の縁　 │   117 │  2.3% │
│ 袖振りあうも他生の縁　 │   105 │  2.0% │
│ 袖触り合うも他生の縁　 │    67 │  1.3% │
│ そで振り合うも他生の縁 │    64 │  1.2% │
│ 袖ふり合うも他生の縁　 │    28 │  0.5% │
│ 袖触り合うも多少の縁　 │    20 │  0.4% │
│ 袖触合うも他生の縁　　 │     0 │  0.0% │ - drop
│ 袖振り合うも多生の縁　 │     0 │  0.0% │ - add (daijr/s, koj, sankoku, obunsha)
│ 袖触合うも多生の縁　　 │     0 │  0.0% │ - (shinmeikai)
╰─ーーーーーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -8 +8,9 @@
-&lt;keb&gt;袖触合うも他生の縁&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;袖振り合うも多生の縁&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;袖ふりあうも他生の縁&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;袖触り合うも多生の縁&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-02-17 01:34:06" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>Also, my interpretation of of the kokugo definitions is that this means something like
"an insignificant event is the culmination of a long and complex history"</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-02-17 10:26:42" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I think this captures it.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>GG5</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -24,0 +25 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;even a chance meeting is due to the karma of a previous life&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>