Japanese

ぶんぶいっと
Meaning: unity of civil and martial learning; treating scholarship and arms as one path
Part of Speech: Noun, Four-character idiom

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Example

その学校では、文武一途の理念のもと、学問と剣道を同じように大切にした。
At that school, under the ideal of uniting study and martial practice, scholarship and sword training were valued equally.

Usage Notes

This formal idiom is used for an ideal that does not separate literary or academic training from martial discipline.

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