寿老人
Appearance
Japanese
[edit]Kanji in this term | ||
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寿 | 老 | 人 |
じゅ Grade: S |
ろう Grade: 4 |
じん Grade: 1 |
on'yomi |
Alternative spelling |
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壽老人 (kyūjitai) |
Proper noun
[edit]Usage notes
[edit]Jurōjin is one of the seven gods of luck (七福神 (shichi fukujin)).
Related terms
[edit]- 福禄寿 (Fukurokuju): god of happiness, wealth and longevity.
- 恵比須 / 恵比寿 / 夷 / 戎 (Ebisu): god of fishers or merchants, often depicted carrying a sea bream.
- 布袋 (Hotei): the fat and happy god of abundance and good health.
- 弁才天 / 弁財天 (べんざいてん, Benzaiten): The Japanese name for the Hindu goddess Saraswati. The goddess of knowledge, art, beauty, music, language, wisdom, poetry and rivers.
- 吉祥天 (Kitsushōten): the goddess of happiness, charm and beauty, of fertility, nature, and of human creativity, and the patronesses of joy, amusement and festivities.
- 大黒 / 大黒天 (Daikoku / Daikokuten): the god of wealth, commerce and trade. Ebisu and Daikoku are often paired and represented as carvings or masks on the walls of small retail shops.
- 毘沙門 / 毘沙門天 (Bishamon / Bishamonten): the god of warriors.
See also
[edit]- 寿老人 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ja
- Jurōjin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 寿 read as じゅ
- Japanese terms spelled with 老 read as ろう
- Japanese terms spelled with 人 read as じん
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese proper nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 3 kanji
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