寿老人

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
寿	老	人

寿老人

Proper noun

寿老人 (hiragana じゅろうじん, romaji Jurōjin)

1. (Shintō): The Japanese god of longevity. One of the seven gods of luck.

Related terms

• 福禄寿 (Fukurokuju): god of happiness, wealth and longevity.
• 恵比須 / 恵比寿 / 夷 / 戎 (Ebisu): god of fishers or merchants, often depicted carrying a sea bream.
• 布袋 (Hotei): the fat and happy god of abundance and good health.
• 弁才天 / 弁財天 (べんざいてん, Benzaiten): The Japanese name for the Hindu goddess Saraswati. The goddess of knowledge, art, beauty, music, language, wisdom, poetry and rivers.
• 大黒 / 大黒天 (Daikoku / Daikokuten): the god of wealth, commerce and trade. Ebisu and Daikoku are often paired and represented as carvings or masks on the walls of small retail shops.
• 毘沙門 / 毘沙門天 (Bishamon / Bishamonten): the god of warriors.

See also

• 寿老人 on the Japanese Wikipedia.ja.Wikipedia
• Jurōjin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Jurōjin