藤袴

Japanese

Kanji in this term
藤	袴
ふじ Grade: S	はかま > ばかま Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 藤(ふじ) (fuji, “wisteria”) + 袴(はかま) (hakama, “traditional Japanese trousers, leafsheath”).

The hakama changes to bakama as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ふじば​かま [fùjíbáꜜkàmà] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝʑiba̠ka̠ma̠]

Noun

藤(ふじ)袴(ばかま) or 藤袴(フジバカマ) • (fujibakama) ^{←ふぢばかま (fudibakama) or フヂバカマ (fudibakama)?}

1. Eupatorium fortunei or Eupatorium japonicum, species of boneset

   Synonyms: 蘭 (ran, rani), 蘭草 (ransō)

   Hypernym: 秋の七草 (aki no nanakusa)

   Coordinate terms: 萩, 尾花, 葛, 撫子, 女郎花, 藤袴, 桔梗

   • 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 10, page 2:

     蘭 兼名苑云、蘭、音蘭 二字舊無、一名薫音恵、本草 布知波加麻、新撰万葉集別用藤袴二字

     Orchid: The Concurrent Names Garden calls them orchids, (pronounced ran) two characters 舊無, one name is 'perfume' (pronounced e), the Materia medica [calls] them fujibakama, the New Selections of the Manyōshū seperately uses the two characters 藤袴

2. Alternate name for 菊 (kiku, “chrysanthemum”)
3. a style of layering garments, with both outer and inner layer being light purple

Derived terms

• 沢(サワ)藤(フジ)袴(バカマ) (sawa fujibakama)
• 蔓(ツル)藤(フジ)袴(バカマ) (tsuru fujibakama)

Proper noun

藤(ふじ)袴(ばかま) • (Fujibakama) ^{←ふぢばかま (fudibakama)?}

1. the thirtieth chapter of The Tale of Genji