Talk:業は勤むるに精しく嬉しむに荒む

Appears bogus
nets me all of 13 hits after paging through, of which some are dictionary-style listings (not usable), some are dupes (can only use one), some are Chinese (not usable), leaving a smaller handful of only four or five. And of these, not one actually uses the expression to convey meaning, they instead write about "oh, there's this old saying, and it means XYZ." Mentions, not uses, so again not usable.

Further searching on Google Books for suggests that this is a rare translation into Japanese of a Chinese proverb, with variant forms -- it's not even a stable calque.

I've deleted this purported Japanese proverb as an apparent phantom. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 00:43, 6 August 2022 (UTC)


 * The National Diet Library has some results (indeed not very "stable"?) but I haven't looked closely. —Fish bowl (talk) 00:48, 6 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the link, very interesting! Quite a wide variety of renderings indeed.  Food for thought.  ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 04:50, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

業
—Fish bowl (talk) 00:45, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
 * :p
 * 
 * (業精於勤，荒於嬉)
 * Ha! :)  I can certainly say I've learned a lot about researching terms and Wiktionary standards since 2012.  😄  ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 04:53, 6 August 2022 (UTC)