404 diseases - 404 diseases

Japanese: 四百四病 - しひゃくしびょう

A general term for all illnesses that humans can suffer from. There are various theories on how to count, but the most common is that there are 404 illnesses in total, each caused by a disorder of the four elements that make up the human body: earth, water, fire, and wind.

[Example] If you jump into the sea at Brighton, you will instantly recover from all 440 diseases. [Natsume Soseki * I Am a Cat | 1905-06]

[Example] My mother likes to say, "There is nothing more painful than poverty than the four hundred and four diseases." [Fumiko Hayashi * Wandering Chronicles Part 3 | 1949]

Source: Dictionary of Four-character Idioms About Dictionary of Four-character Idioms Information

Japanese:

人間がかかる一切の病気の総称。数え方には種々の説があるが、人間の体を構成する地・水・火・風の四つの元素の不調により、一々の元素に百一の病がおこり、合わせて四百四と数えるものが代表的。

[使用例] ブライトンの海水に飛び込めば四百四病即席全快と［夏目漱石＊吾輩は猫である｜1905～06］

[使用例] 四百四病の病より、貧よりつらいものはないと、うちのおっかさんが口癖に言います［林芙美子＊放浪記第三部｜1949］

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