- ぼくせき
- 木石
trees and stones
unfeeling person* * *Iぼくせき【木石】〔木と石〕 trees and stones; 〔非生命体〕 inanimate objects; sticks and stones; 〔人情のわからない者〕 ⇒ぼくせきかん.●木石に等しい have no more feeling than a stone; be lost to sense
・人木石にあらず. Man is a sentient being.
●木石の配置 arrangement of trees and stones [rockwork]
・木石のごとき 〔無感覚な〕 unimpressionable; insensible; unsusceptible; impassive; callous
・木石のごとき人 =ぼくせきかん.
II●私だって木石ではない. I am not a stick nor a stone. | I am made of flesh and blood.
ぼくせき【墨跡・墨蹟】calligraphy (done) by a Zen priest.
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.