伝統に新しい風を

English translation: New Breeze on Traditions

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Japanese term or phrase:	伝統に新しい風を
English translation:	New Breeze on Traditions
Entered by:	Mike Sekine

20:50 Aug 23, 2004

Japanese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / ��ς��݂��ł��

Japanese term or phrase: 伝統に新しい風を

美術館のパンフを訳しています。展示会のキャッチコピーなのですが、ピンとくるものが思いつきません。ヘルプ！

Mike Sekine KudoZ activity Questions: 63 (none open) (2 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 379 Japan
Local time: 22:40

Introduce new breeze to the tradition

Explanation:
"Introduce new breeze to the tradition."
Or, "Introduce new breeze to the traditional world of [fine arts, for instance].

Selected response from:

Nobuo Kawamura
Japan
Local time: 22:40

Grading comment

New Breeze on Traditions sounds good. Thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +2

Breath new (life/perspective) into fading traditions.

Roddy Stegemann

5 +1

Letting fresh air into tradition

Ralf A. Schumacher

4 +1

Reinventing Tradition/Tradition Takes Bold New Forms

Savana Simpson

5 -1

Introduce new breeze to the tradition

Nobuo Kawamura

New Traditional

Rumiko L.

Breath of fresh air

Maynard Hogg

Answers

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

Introduce new breeze to the tradition

Explanation:
"Introduce new breeze to the tradition."
Or, "Introduce new breeze to the traditional world of [fine arts, for instance].

Nobuo Kawamura
Japan
Local time: 22:40
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Japanese
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

New Breeze on Traditions sounds good. Thanks!

2 hrs confidence:

伝統に新しい風を New Traditional

Explanation:
It's a "New Traditional" art (craft, style...)！

展示会のキャッチでしたら、短く分かりやすいのが良いかと思いますが…。

Rumiko L.
United States
Local time: 09:40
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Japanese

4 hrs confidence:

伝統に新しい風を Breath of fresh air

Explanation:
Breathing fresh life into old traditions?
Even traditional arts and crafts have to be reinvented to prevent them from becoming calcified and stale. There may not be much room for evolution--too many traditionalists screaming--but there's lots of margin for change. And change for change's sake is the whole raison d'etre behind パリコレ.

Maynard Hogg
Canada
Local time: 06:40
Native speaker of: English

5 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

伝統に新しい風を Reinventing Tradition/Tradition Takes Bold New Forms

Explanation:
This is just an example of how I think you should approach this. My reasoning is that catch copy and translation are two different tasks. You have to understand what is the main thrust of the catch copy - what is the gallery trying to emphasize - and work from there without trying to stick too closely to the original. You may need to talk to the client about this as the catch copy is an extremely important part of the marketing stragegy.

Savana Simpson
Local time: 23:40
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

伝統に新しい風を Breath new (life/perspective) into fading traditions.

Explanation:
意味の文脈から切り取ったので、表現を解釈する方法が難しいですが、２つの方法を差し上げます。尚、「life」又は「perspective 」では、どちらを選ぶと、無くなる伝統の原因を考えるべきのことです。前者は、人々が伝統に従うと、不便な結果があるはずです；後者は、伝統に従うと、限定な結果があるので、従わない方がよいでしょう。

読ませて頂くのは、どうも、ありがとうございました。

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Note added at 9 hrs 54 mins (2004-08-24 06:44:59 GMT)
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I would like to amend my entry by adding the letter ¥"e¥" to the word breath.

Roddy Stegemann
United States
Local time: 06:40
Native speaker of:

English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

neutral

Maynard Hogg: Scratching the "fading" jab would be more appropriate.

1 hr

-> Maynard, the word fading was not meant to be a jab. Traditions often die slowly, in much the same way that mountains wear with the wind.

agree

Jenelle Davenport: I like this one best, perhaps agreeing with the omission of "fading". You could also leave fading in there to good effect. Very evocative...

3 hrs

-> Thanks transjapan. You have correctly understood the reason why I inserted the word fading.

agree

Ralf A. Schumacher: The question may be, how much explanation the audience needs. This is not meant to be arrogant whatsoever, but though Americans speak much of tradition as well, their perspective on some 500 yrs. undoubtedly differs from millenia of Eurasian tradition.

13 hrs

-> Thanks Ralf, but it is not the number of years that make traditions strong, rather what one makes of the traditions that survive the years.

2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

伝統に新しい風を Letting fresh air into tradition

Explanation:
This is merely an alternative proposal; I like our colleague's previous idea as much.

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Note added at 17 hrs 0 min (2004-08-24 13:50:43 GMT)
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Thank you, too, Hamo, for your reply below, and I was not doubting the weight of quality. That\'s why I wrote \"speak much of traditon\". I did not mean to be judgmental but to hint at the various angles to look at the problem.

I like the image of the wind (or the robe of the princess walking by once in a thousand years) wearing off the mountain. Many, but not most Westerners may know it, so would they become more curious with a plain literal translation with open connotations, or with all explanations provided? My suggestion above happens to be an example of the former approach...

Ralf A. Schumacher
Japan
Local time: 22:40
Native speaker of:

English,

German

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