黄泉竈食い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
黄	泉	竈	食
よも(つ)		へ Hyōgaiji	く > ぐ Grade: 2
Grade: 2	Grade: 6
jukujikun		kun’yomi	kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 黄泉(よも) (yomo) + つ (tsu, genitive marker) + 竈食(へぐ)い (hegui).

Noun

黄泉(よもつ)竈(へ)食(ぐ)い • (yomotsuhegui) ^{←よもつへぐひ (yomotufegufi)?}

1. eating food prepared from the kettle in the underworld; it is believed that once this food is eaten, the dead may never return to the land of the living
   • 712: Kojiki

     爾伊邪那美命答白、悔哉、不速來。吾者爲黄泉戸喫。

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   • 720: Nihon Shoki

     吾已湌泉之竃矣。 [...] 湌泉之竃、此云譽母都俳遇比

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References

• Kurano, Kenji with Yūkichi Takeda (1958) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Kojiki, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
• Sakamoto, Tarō with Ienaga Saburō, Inoue Mitsusada, Ōno Susumu (1967) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 67: Nihon Shoki, volume 1, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN