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For pronunciation and definitions of 笈 – see 籍 (“record; register; list; hometown; place of ancestry; etc.”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of籍).
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Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.
a box with legs that is carried on the back, used by itinerant monks and yamabushi to carry books, articles of worship, clothing, etc.
Synonym:笈(kyū)
1918, 岡本綺堂, 半七捕物帳 お照の父, 青空文庫:
彼は仏の像を入れた重い笈を背負って、錫杖をついて、信州の雪を踏みわけて中仙道へ出た。
Kare wa hotoke no zō o ireta omoi oi o seotte, shakujō o tsuite, Shinshū no yuki o fumiwakete Nakasendō e deta.
He trod though the snow of Shinshū with a khakkhara in hand and shouldering a heavy oi that contained a statue of a buddha and arrived on the Nakasendō.