Translation of Colour Terms as a Means of Conveying Sense in a Work of Fiction

The paper explores the role of colour sign in a work of fiction and its conveying in cross-cultural communication. In the process of translation between Japanese and Russian the sense interpretation is achieved through the cognitive translation of the context. The paper’s objectives are to give the way how to understand the Japanese character meaning in a colour terms. Unlike a letter of the alphabet, a character has its own meaning. There is a synonymy of characters, which significantly enhances the synonymy of the Japanese language vocabulary. When choosing an equivalent in Russian to translate a Japanese word, when choosing an equivalent in Russian to translate a Japanese word, the analysis of the characters that make up this word is of great importance. In practice this stands for conveying sense of colour sign in the linguistic picture of the traditional culture.