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Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
後生大事 • (goshōdaiji)
- (Buddhism) religious zeal; taking great care for the afterlife
1927, Kayahara Kazan, Sei no shūkyō: ichimei gōri shinsei ron [A religious life: one person’s theory of the life hereafter], page 109:
- 事賀上世界の仏教國は日本なりといって誇るものがあるが「後生大事」も困るではないか。後生大事で、無賀な百姓祈角汗水滴らして、
- Koto ga ue sekai no Bukkyō koku wa Nihon nari to itte hokoru mono ga aru ga “goshōdaiji” mo komaru de wa nai ka. Goshōdaiji de, muga na hyakushō inokaku asemizu shitatarashite,
- Japan boasts of being a most Buddhist country, but can not this “religious zeal” also be a burden? For attention to the afterlife, joyless peasants pray until the sweat drips,
- fastidiousness, doing one's best; exaggerated or excessive deliberateness
See also
- 大事 (daiji, “important; an important thing”)
- 後生 (goshō, “the afterlife, the next world”)
- 後生 (nochioi, “that which is done later or happens later; (one's) future”)
- 後生 (kōsei, “younger generations; one's progeny; youth”)
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