The collection contains the wisdom of the great people of the Land of the Rising Sun. For a deeper penetration into the spirit of the Japanese people, a literal translation has been added to some proverbs and sayings, except for the literary one. For a reader with analytical thinking, this technique will help not only to penetrate more deeply into the essence of the statement, but also to assess the possibilities of the Japanese language in a comparative analysis with the amazing imagery of Russian. The obvious value of the collection is the immersion of the reader in the origins of the Japanese language, which gives him the opportunity to analyze the evolutionary path traveled by the Japanese people to the modern level of culture. Each proverb, proverb and aphorism is accompanied by a detailed dictionary, which gives this collection an additional function of a manual for learning the Japanese language.