【Let’s learn Japanese with Senryu（川柳・せんりゅう）】The best senryu from 2020 National Senryu Competition

我が家では　最強スクラム　妻娘
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我が家（わ・が・や／wa ga ya）means ‘my home’.

我が家（わ・が・や／wa ga ya）

我が means ‘my’, although you don’t usually use it in a conversation. It is used in writing more often and sounds older and more formal.

Ex:

和が国（わ・が・こく／wa ga ko ku）means ‘my country’.
我が息子（わ・が・むす・こ／wa ga mu su ko）means ‘my son’.

で（de）is a location marking particle which means ‘in/on/at’.
は（wa）is a topic marking particle which doesn’t mean anything.
最強（さい・きょう／sa i kyo o）means ‘the strongest’.

最強　⇔　最弱（さい・じゃく／sa i ja ku）means ‘the weakest’.

スクラム（su ku ra mu）means ‘scrum’.
妻（つま／tsu ma）means ‘wife’.
娘（むすめ／mu su me）means ‘daughter’.

What does this all mean?

The person who made this Senryu is a man who has his wife and daughter. He thinks that he can’t talk back to them because they are as firm as a rugby scrum.

He used the rugby term as Japan hosted Rugby World Cup in 2019.

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