Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
さん
Grade: 1
ごう
Grade: 3
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
山號 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(さん)(ごう) (sangō

  1. (Buddhism) mountain name: honorific name given to Buddhist temples, originally from the mountain on which they were located, but given to temples not built on mountains from the Kamakura period onwards

See also edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN