焼やけ野のの雉夜きぎすよるの鶴つる

expression

parents risk everything for their children

A rare, poetic proverb comparing parental devotion to a pheasant staying in a burning field or a crane shielding its young on a cold night. Used in literary or rhetorical contexts to emphasize self-sacrificing love.

• 「焼やけ野のの雉きぎす夜よるの鶴つる」ということわざがあるように、親おやは子このためならどんな危き険けんもいとわない。

  As the proverb 'a pheasant in a burning field, a crane on a cold night' says, parents will brave any danger for their children.