ふるさと (furusato)

いつもふるさとを懐なつかしく思おもい出だすの。

I always remember my hometown fondly.

予言者は古里に尊ばれず

“A prophet is not honoured in his own country.”

【イディオム・格言的】予言者はその古里に尊ばれず

“A prophet hath no honour in his own country.”

日本に10年住みなれて今や日本は私の古里になった.

I have lived in Japan for ten years, and it has become my home.

「蘇武という人は雁に手紙をつけて万里をへだてた古里に送ったそうです。」

A man named Wu SU sent a letter home from far away, tying it to a goose.'｢

昔、中国の蘇武という人が、異民族の国におきざりにされたとき、古里の妻子は夫のいるところの夜の寒さを案じて、高楼にのぼって砧を打ったといいます。」

It is told that long ago in China, when a man named Wu SU was abandoned in a country where the people were of a difference race, his wife and children at home climbed a koro (high tower) and pounded a kinuta because they were concerned about the cold at night in the place where he was.'

映画俳優の中村玉緒は、子どもたちに古里を作るために、同じく映画俳優の夫・勝新太郎と「亀岡にお墓を建てて、ふたりで戻ってこよう」と話をしていたという。

The film actors Tamao NAKAMURA and Shintaro KATSU reportedly said to each other, "Let's build a tomb in Kameoka and come back together some day," in reference to giving their children a home town.