大和魂

Japanese

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

大和(やまと)魂(だましい) • (Yamato-damashii) ^{←やまとだましひ (yamatodamasifi)^?}

the Japanese spirit
- 1859, tanka by Yoshida Shōin (also Aikoku Hyakunin Isshu, poem 77)
  身(み)はたとひ武蔵(むさし)の野辺(のべ)に朽(く)ちぬとも留(とど)め置(お)かまし大和(やまと)魂(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]
(figurative) the unique qualities or traits of the Japanese people

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ 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
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ 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