春日

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• 春日市

“Kasuga”

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 春日 (Kasuga).

春日

1. (literary) spring; spring days

   • 春日載陽，有鳴倉庚。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     春日载阳，有鸣仓庚。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Chūnrì zǎi yáng, yǒu míng cānggēng.

     With the spring days the warmth begins,
     And the oriole utters its song.

2. (Classical) spring sun

春日

1. (～鄉) Chunri (a mountain indigenous township in Pingtung County, Taiwan)
2. (～市) Kasuga (a city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan)

From Middle Chinese compound 春日 (MC tsyhwin nyit).

Compare Min Nan 春日 (chhun-ji̍t).

• (Tokyo) しゅんじつ (Heiban – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

春(しゅん)日(じつ) • (shunjitsu) 

1. the spring sun; a day in springtime

• 春日(しゅんじつ)遅遅(ちち), 春日(しゅんじつ)遅々(ちち) (shunjitsu chichi, “serene spring day”)

From Old Japanese.

Compound of 春 (haru, “spring, springtime”) +‎ 日 (hi, “sun, sunlight, daylight, day”).

Sometimes pronounced with rendaku (連濁), as harubi.^[2]

• (Tokyo) はるひ (Heiban – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

春(はる)日(ひ) or 春(はる)日(び) • (haruhi or harubi) 

1. (archaic) the spring sun; a day in springtime
   • c. 1005–07, Shūi Wakashū (book 1, poem 57)

     ちりぬべき花(はな)見(み)る時(とき)はすがのねのながきはる日(ひ)もみじかかりける

     chirinu beki hana miru toki wa suga no ne no nagaki haruhi mo mijikakarikeru

     (please add an English translation of this example)

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:春日.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:春日.

春(はる)日(ひ) • (Haruhi) 

1. a placename, especially within Kiyosu city in northwestern Aichi Prefecture
2. a surname
3. a female given name

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From Old Japanese. The kanji spelling comes from the pillow word 春日(はるひ) (haruhi) used to introduce the place name Kasuga.^[1]

Compare 飛鳥 (Asuka).

• IPA^(key):

春日(かすが) • (Kasuga) 

1. a placename, especially:
   1. Short for 春日市 (Kasuga-shi): A city in Fukuoka Prefecture
   2. an ancient placename in the vicinity that is today part of city of Nara in Nara Prefecture; site of 春日大社 (Kasuga-taisha, “Kasuga Grand Shrine”)
2. a surname
3. a female given name

For quotations using this term, see Citations:春日.

Other various nanori readings.

春日(かすか) • (Kasuka) 

1. a surname

春日(かずか) • (Kazuka) 

1. a placename

春日(しゅんにち) • (Shunnichi) 

1. a surname

春日(はるか) • (Haruka) 

1. a female given name
2. a surname

春日(はるま) • (Haruma) 

1. a surname

• 春日(かすか)部(べ) (Kasukabe)

From 春 (paru, “spring, springtime”) +‎ 日 (pi₁, “sun, sunlight, daylight, day”).

春日 (parupi₁) (kana はるひ)

1. the spring sun; a day in springtime
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 5, poem 846:
     , text here

     可須美多都那我岐波流卑乎可謝勢例杼伊野那都可子岐烏梅能波那可毛

     kasumi₁ tatu nagaki₁ parupi₁ wo kazaseredo₂ iya natukasiki₁ ume₂ no₂ pana ka mo

     Through the long spring day, hazy with its rising mist, we keep our brows decked with blossoms of the plum, but only grow the fonder.^[1]

   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 19, poem 4292:
     , text here

     宇良宇良爾照流春日爾比婆理安我里情悲毛比登里志於母倍婆

     uraura ni tereru parupi₁ ni pi₁bari agari ko₂ko₂ro₂ kanasi mo pi₁to₂ri si omope₂ba

     Into the soft light of a tranquil day in spring a lark rises high―leaving my heart saddened as I muse on all alone.^[2]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:春日.
2. a misty day (or sun) in spring, allusion to 春日 (Kasuga, a placename, see below)
   • 720, Nihon Shoki, poem 94:

     謂須能箇瀰賦屡鳴須擬底擧慕摩矩羅柁箇播志須擬慕能娑播爾於褒野該須擬播屡比箇須我鳴須擬逗摩御慕屡鳴佐褒鳴須擬...

     Isuno₂kami₁ Puru wo sugi₂te ko₂momakura Takapasi sugi₂ mono₂sapa ni Opoyake₂ sugi₂ parupi₁ Kasuga wo sugi₂ tuma-go₂moru Wosapo wo sugi₂...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:春日.

• 春日の (parupi₁ no₂, pillow word)
• 春日を (parupi₁ wo, pillow word)

• Japanese: 春日 (haruhi, harubi)

Compare 明日香 (Asuka), from pillow word 飛ぶ鳥の (to₂bu to₂ri no₂).

春日 (Kasuga) (kana かすが)

1. a placename in the vicinity that is today part of the city of Nara in Nara Prefecture
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 3, poem 407:
     , text here

     千磐破神之社四無有世伐春日之野邊粟種益乎

     tipayaburu kami₂ no₂ yasiro₂ si nakariseba Kasuga-no₂-no₁pe₁ ni apa makamasi wo

     Thousand-rock-smashing, a fierce deity abides in the godly shrine: but for her I'd be well pleased to sow our millet in Kasuga fields.^[3]

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:春日.

• 春日野 (Kasuga-no₁)
• 春日山 (Kasuga-yama)

• Japanese: 春日 (Kasuga)

• 春霞 (parukasumi₁, pillow word that can allude to Kasuga)