みおづくし

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of みおづくし – see the following entry.

【澪標みおつくし】 [noun] a dolphin erected as a daybeacon or daymark: a navigational marker indicating the bounds of a water channel [noun] allusion to 尽くし (tsukushi, “exhausting”) [noun] one of the sixty-one famous incense varieties, made from aromatic 伽羅 (kyara) wood with a bitter smell

(This term, みおづくし, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)