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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…。

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...