竹取

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
竹	取
たけ Grade: 1	と(り) Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

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Noun

竹(たけ)取(とり) • (taketori)

bamboo cutter
- c. late 9th–mid-10th century, Taketori Monogatari
  今(いま)は昔(むかし)、竹取(たけとり)の翁(おきな)といふものありけり。
  Ima wa mukashi, Taketori no Okina to iu mono arikeri.
  Once upon a time, there was a man named Taketori no Okina .

References

^ “UVa Library eText Center: Japanese Text Initiative”, in University of Virginia‎, 2001, retrieved 2021-10-04

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