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English translation: "The heavens are high (above) and the Emperor is far away"

09:04 Oct 8, 2013
Japanese to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Science fiction
Japanese term or phrase: Picture
It comes from site of a sci-fi game under development, so it's kind of a puzzle. It is a thousand times a puzzle for me since I speak no Japanese, and OCR extracts only first three hieroglyphs. Please help! I will appreciate answer in English or Russian.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6h9p7l3xgmqhiy6/japanese_puzzle.jp...
Sergey Afanasev
English translation:"The heavens are high (above) and the Emperor is far away"
Explanation:
(It is Chinese, not Japanese)
天高皇帝远 (Chinese)
天高皇帝遠 (Japanese equivalent)

It is a saying used to describe rural areas of China which were beyond the Emperor's (or government's) influence.

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Note added at 2 days16 hrs (2013-10-11 01:19:13 GMT)
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5"The heavens are high (above) and the Emperor is far away"
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FYI
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2 days 16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
"The heavens are high (above) and the Emperor is far away"


Explanation:
(It is Chinese, not Japanese)
天高皇帝远 (Chinese)
天高皇帝遠 (Japanese equivalent)

It is a saying used to describe rural areas of China which were beyond the Emperor's (or government's) influence.

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Note added at 2 days16 hrs (2013-10-11 01:19:13 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

(Just in case you wanted the Japanese as well :) )


    Reference: http://www.wordsense.eu/%E5%A4%A9%E9%AB%98%E7%9A%87%E5%B8%9D...
Andrew Cull
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Local time: 13:41
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Reference: FYI

Reference information:
I think it is not Japanese.

http://cjjc.weblio.jp/content/天高皇帝远
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/天高皇帝远

cinefil
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Asker: Thank you so much! I'm completely illiterate in Asian languages.

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