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Japanese
Etymology
Compound of 大和 (Yamato, “Yamato Province → Japan”) + 魂 (tamashii, “soul, spirit”).
The tamashii changes to damashii as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
Noun
大和魂 • (Yamato-damashii) ←やまとだましひ (yamatodamasifi)?
- the Japanese spirit
- 1859, tanka by Yoshida Shōin (also Aikoku Hyakunin Isshu, poem 77)
- 身はたとひ武蔵の野辺に朽ちぬとも留め置かまし大和魂
- mi wa tatoi Musashi no nobe ni kuchinu to mo todome okamashi Yamato-damashii
- Though my corpse rot beneath the ground of Musashi, my soul remains forever Japanese
- (figurative) the unique qualities or traits of the Japanese people
Synonyms
References
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
- ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Yoel Hoffmann (1998) Peter Koslowski, editor, Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, page 55