Translation guide
The concept of raw, physical courage without strategy or intellect, often implying recklessness or animalistic bravery.
Describing courage that relies on brute force or instinct rather than thought or skill.
Directly translates to 'brute courage' or 'reckless bravery'. Often used in formal or written contexts to criticize thoughtless daring.
Literally 'courage that doesn't look ahead', implying rashness. Common in spoken and written Japanese.
Describes headlong, boar-like rushing courage. Often used to criticize someone charging ahead without thinking.
A literary/classical term for the courage of an ordinary man, often implying thoughtless bravery. Rare in modern conversation.
Courage that resembles an animal's instinctive fight response, lacking human reason.
Directly translating 'brute courage' as 野蛮な勇気 (yaban na yūki) sounds unnatural. Use established terms like 蛮勇 or descriptive phrases.
彼の行動は蛮勇に過ぎない。
His actions are nothing more than brute courage.
You can't succeed with just reckless courage.
Brute courage won't solve this problem.
That is nothing but brute courage.
He faced the enemy with brute courage.
Means 'animalistic courage', emphasizing instinct over thought.
Animalistic courage alone cannot beat strategy.