Illustration: At a Japanese allotment garden, an older gardener confidently demonstrates his firmly preferred practice of planting vegetables among flowers. He gestures from his carefully interplanted bed to several worn photographs showing himself using the same arrangement in earlier seasons.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

持じ論ろん

jiron

one’s own theory, firm opinion

Example sentences

私わたしには持論じろんがあります。
I have my own theory.
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彼かれは自分じぶんの持論じろんに固執こしつした。
He adhered to his own theory.
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私わたしの持論じろんの一ひとつは、物事ものごとは少すこしはなれたところから見みるべきだということである。
A pet theory of mine is that things should be seen from a distance.
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Kanji in 持論

持hold; haveOnジKunもつ・もてる
論argument; discourseOnロンKunあげつらう

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