霊屋
Japanese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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霊 | 屋 |
たま Grade: S |
や Grade: 3 |
kun’yomi |
Alternative spelling |
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靈屋 (kyūjitai) |
Compound of 霊 (tama, “soul, essence, life force”) + 屋 (ya, “house; building”).[1][2][3] First appears in the 1000s.[1][4]
The term appears to be a shift in usage from the earlier terms 殯宮 (mogari no miya, araki no miya, literally “wake or mourning shrine”) and 喪屋 (moya, literally “funerary house”) seen in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.[4]
Alternative forms edit
- 魂屋 (uncommon)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- (Shinto) a shrine dedicated to a specific individual
- Synonyms: 霊廟 (reibyō), 霊殿 (tamadono), (see below) 霊屋 (reioku)
- 日光東照宮は霊屋の一例です。
- Nikkō Tōshōgū wa tamaya no ichirei desu.
- The Nikkō Tōshōgū is one example of a tamaya, a shrine dedicated to an individual.
- (Shinto) a place where the remains of the dead are kept temporarily during a period of mourning, prior to burial at a formal funeral
- Synonym: 霊殿 (tamadono)
- (Shinto) a roof placed over a grave, sometimes built to shelter offerings, incense, and the like from the elements
- Synonym: 上屋 (uwaya)
Etymology 2 edit
Kanji in this term | |
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霊 | 屋 |
れい Grade: S |
おく Grade: 3 |
kan’on |
Alternative spelling |
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靈屋 (kyūjitai) |
Likely from Middle Chinese 靈屋 (MC leng 'uwk).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
霊屋 • (reioku) ←れいをく (reiwoku)?
- (Shinto) a shrine dedicated to a specific individual
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 “霊屋”, in 世界大百科事典 第2版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
- “霊屋”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
- “霊屋”, in 日本大百科全書:ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)[3] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984