つるぎたち

Japanese

Noun

つるぎたち • (tsurugi-tachi) 

  1. 剣太刀: a sharp sword; a sword (in general); a sharpened sword, alludes to 身に添う (mi ni sou, “to stay by one's side”) and 磨ぐ (togu, “to sharpen”); a sacred sword, alludes to 斎う (iwau, “to worship”, obsolete); as homophone to 刃 (na, “edge”), alludes to 名 (na, “name”) and 汝 (na, self-referential pronoun)
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