Tra cứu

生酔い本性違わず なまよいほんしょうたがわず

In wine there is truth

事実は小説より奇なり じじつはしょうせつよりきなり

truth is stranger than fiction

今日という今日 きょうというきょう

this very day, today is the day (that...), today for sure

事こそ ことこそ

this for sure, certainly is

実事求是 じつじきゅうぜ

practical search for the truth

此れっ許り これっぱかり

this little, this few, in the slightest

舞文曲筆 ぶぶんきょくひつ

twisting of the truth in one's writing, playing with text to distort the truth

心焉に在らざれば視れども見えず こころここにあらざればみれどもみえず

The eye is blind if the mind is absent