虚無僧

Japanese
Kanji in this term
虚 無 僧
こ
Grade: S		 む
Grade: 4		 そう
Grade: S
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
虛無僧 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) こむそー [kòmúsóó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ko̞mɯ̟ᵝso̞ː]

Noun

虚(こ)無(む)僧(そう) • (komusō) 

  1. komuso, a Japanese mendicant monastic of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism, during the Edo period of 1600-1868.

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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