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袖振り合うも他生の縁袖振り合うも多生の縁袖ふりあうも他生の縁 [sK] 袖触り合うも多生の縁 [sK]
そでふりあうもたしょうのえん
1. [exp] [proverb]
▶ even a chance meeting can lead to a deep bond
▶ even a chance meeting is due to the karma of a previous life
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1407260 他生の縁【たしょうのえん】 1. karma from a previous existence
  ⇐ see: 2774320 袖すり合うも多生の縁【そですりあうもたしょうのえん】 1. a meeting by chance is preordained



History:
8. A 2023-02-17 10:26:42  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
GG5
  Comments:
I think this captures it.
  Diff:
@@ -24,0 +25 @@
+<gloss>even a chance meeting is due to the karma of a previous life</gloss>
7. A* 2023-02-17 01:34:06  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  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"
6. A* 2023-02-17 00:43:57  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  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─┴───────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -8 +8,9 @@
-<keb>袖触合うも他生の縁</keb>
+<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>
5. A 2019-04-17 20:09:25  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
4. A* 2019-04-13 14:34:32  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
also 多生 and incorrecrly as 多少 accorsing 
to yahoo dics
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