大和魂

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
やまと たましい > だましい
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jukujikun kun'yomi

Etymology

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Compound of 大和(やまと) (Yamato, Yamato ProvinceJapan) + (たましい) (tamashii, soul, spirit).

The tamashii changes to damashii as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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大和(やまと)(だましい) (Yamato-damashiiやまとだましひ (yamatodamasifi)?

  1. the Japanese spirit
    • 1859, tanka by Yoshida Shōin (also Aikoku Hyakunin Isshu, poem 77)
      ()はたとひ武蔵(むさし)野辺(のべ)()ちぬとも(とど)()かまし大和(やまと)(だましひ)
      mi wa tatoi Musashi no nobe ni kuchinu to mo todome okamashi Yamato-damashii
      Though my corpse rot beneath the ground of Musashi, my soul remains forever Japanese[4]
  2. (figurative) the unique qualities or traits of the Japanese people

Synonyms

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References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ Yoel Hoffmann (1998) Peter Koslowski, editor, Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, page 55