時鳥
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 時 | 鳥 |
| ほととぎす | |
| Grade: 2 | Grade: 2 |
| jukujikun | |
Glyph origin[edit]
The kanji spelling literally means “time bird”, as the lesser cuckoo's timely arrival in early summer can be used as a metaphor for new life detaching from the past.[1]
See also 時つ鳥 (tokitsudori) and 時の鳥 (toki no tori).
Definitions[edit]
| For pronunciation and definitions of 時鳥 – see the following entry. | ||
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| (This term, 時鳥, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) |
References[edit]
- ^ Daniel Gallimore (2019) “Of Ponds, Lakes, and the Sea: Shōyō, Shakespeare, and Romanticism”, in Alex Watson, Laurence Williams, editors, British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia (Asia-Pacific and Literature in English), Springer, →ISBN, page 281