しにがみ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しにがみ – see the following entry.

【死に神】 [noun] a god or spirit who leads humans toward their death [noun] (tarot) Death [proper noun] the Grim Reaper (personification of death) [proper noun] a rakugo loosely based on the opera Crispino e la comare and revolves around an impoverished man meeting a shinigami Alternative spelling 死神

(This term, しにがみ (shinigami), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)