笊法

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
笊	法
ざる Hyōgai	ほう Grade: 4
yutōyomi

Alternative spellings
ざる法ザル法

Etymology

Superficially of ざる (zaru, “sieve”) + 法(ほう) (hō, “law”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ざるほー (Heiban – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Noun

笊(ざる)法(ほう) • (zaruhō) ^{←ざるはふ (zarufafu)^?}

(uncommon) a law that is full of loopholes
- 2016 August 3, “Jōmo kadan haidan ryūdan [Selections from Jomo poetry circle]”, in Asahi Shimbun, page 30:
  
  老(お)いと言(い)わせぬ意地(いじ)はまだある / デジタル世代(せだい)に合(あ)わすアンテナ / プライバシーの陰(かげ)に隠(かく)れて / 笊(ざる)さえ潜(もぐ)るほどの笊法(ざるほう) / 根(ね)っこ切(き)られた如(ごと)き虚(むな)しさ / 虚実絡(きょじつから)めて泳(およ)ぐ人生(じんせい) / さてどう越(こ)えて行(い)くか明日(あした)へ。
  Oi to iwasenu iji wa mada aru / dejitaru sedai ni awasu antena / puraibashī no kage ni kakurete / zaru sae moguru hodo no zaruhō / nekko kirareta gotoki munashisa / kyojitsu karamete oyogu jinsei / sate dō koete iku ka ashita e.
  Don't call it age, still there is willpower, / Antenna tuned to the digital world / Hiding behind privacy screens / Weak laws evaded more easily than a sieve / Unmoored as though cut at the root / Swimming through a sea of falsehood / Just to get through another day.

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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