窮鳥懐に入れば猟師も殺さず
きゅうちょうふところにいればりょうしもころさず
even the hunter will refrain from killing the bird that has flown to him for shelter
Words
Kanji 鳥, meaning bird, appears in 407 Japanese vocabulary entries.
きゅうちょうふところにいればりょうしもころさず
even the hunter will refrain from killing the bird that has flown to him for shelter
ごうちとりかいばかのうち
go players and bird keepers are idiots (both activities demand a lot of time)
こでこにならぬほととぎす
no matter how lovingly raised, a foster child is not actually one's biological child