Izu no Odoriko – Vocabulary list

根こん源げん

root; source; origin; cause

1

文ぶん学がく

literature

1

バラモン教きょう

Brahmanism

1

文ぶん献けん

literature; books (reference); document

1

宗しゅう教きょう

religion; religious affiliation; belief; religious activity

2

最さい古こ

the oldest

1

退しりぞく

to step back; to move back; to withdraw (from the presence of a superior); to leave; to resign; to retire

1

もはや

already; now; no longer; not any more

1

修しゅう養よう

self-improvement; (mental) training; self-discipline; cultivation

1

静せい寂じゃく

silence; stillness; quietness

1

無む為い

idleness; inactivity

1

境きょう地ち

state (of mind); mental state; field (of activity); one's lot; circumstance; place

4

煩ぼん悩のう

worldly desires; evil passions; appetites of the flesh; klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)

1

死しに変かわる

to die and be reborn as something else

1

巡めぐる

to go around; to return; to surround; to concern (usu. of disputes)

1

迷まよいの世せ界かい

world of the lost; human realm; this world

1

永えい久きゅう

eternity; permanence; perpetuity; Eikyū era (1113.7.13-1118.4.3)

1

車しゃ輪りん

(vehicle) wheel

1

転てん々てん

moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly; rolling about

1

死し滅めつ

extinction; annihilation; destruction

1

概がい念ねん

general idea; concept; notion

1

根こん本ぽん

root; source; origin; foundation; basis; essence

1

思し想そう

thought; idea; ideology

1

極きわめて

exceedingly; extremely; decisively

1

義ぎ

morality; righteousness; meaning; teachings; doctrine; nonconsanguineous relationship (i.e. of in-laws)

1

仏ふつ語ご

French (language)

1

餓が鬼き

brat; kid; urchin; preta; hungry ghost

1

行いき着つく

to arrive (at one's destination); to reach; to come to a head; to reach a conclusion; to culminate (in)

1

因よすが

something to rely on; aid; someone to rely on; relative; reminder; memento

1

善ぜん悪あく

good and evil

1

不ふ詳しょう

unknown; unidentified; unspecified

1

生せい没ぼつ年ねん

years of (someone's) birth and death

1

著ちょ者しゃ

author (usu. of a particular book); writer

1

道どう話わ

exemplum

1

書しょ

book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter

2

心しん学がく

Edo-period popularized blend of Buddhist, Shinto and Confucian ethical teachings (popularised)

1

布ふ施せ

alms-giving; charity; offerings (usu. money) to a priest (for reading sutras, etc.)

1

反はん語ご

irony; rhetorical question

1

忌いむ

to avoid; to refrain from; to shun; to detest

1

無なし

without; unacceptable; not alright; unsatisfactory

1

梨なし

nashi (Pyrus pyrifolia, esp. var. culta); Japanese pear; Asian pear; sand pear; apple pear

1

梨なしの実み

pear

1

奇き行こう

eccentricity; eccentric behaviour

1

よくする

to make good; to improve; to do often; to be kind to; to treat well

1

書しょ画が

paintings and calligraphic works

1

狂きょう歌か

comic (satirical) tanka

1

住じゅう持じ

chief priest of temple

1

大だい徳とく

great virtue; virtuous priest; priest; rich person

1

京きょう都と

Kyoto (city, prefecture)

1

僧そう

monk; priest; sangha (the Buddhist community)

1

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Vocabulary list: Izu no Odoriko