げんぷく

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of げんぷく – see the following entry.

【元服】 [noun] (historical) genpuku, a coming of age ceremony for a boy [noun] (historical) A ritual in which a married woman dyes her teeth, ties her hair into a mage, and shaves her eyebrows.

(This term, げんぷく (genpuku), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)