黄泉醜女

Japanese

Kanji in this term
黄	泉	醜	女
よも(つ)		しこ Grade: S	め Grade: 1
Grade: 2	Grade: 6
jukujikun		kun’yomi

Alternative spellings
黃泉醜女 (kyūjitai) 黄泉つ醜女 泉津醜女

Etymology

Compound of 黄泉 (yomo, “underworld, land of the dead”, combining form) +‎ つ (tsu, genitive marker) +‎ 醜女 (shikome, “ferocious and ugly demoness who lives in the land of the dead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jo̞mo̞ t͡sɨᵝ ɕiko̞me̞]

Noun

黄泉(よもつ)醜(しこ)女(め) • (yomo tsu shikome) 

1. ferocious and ugly demon women of the underworld
   • 712: Kojiki

     於是伊邪那岐命、見畏而逃還之時、其妹伊邪那美命、言令見辱吾、即遣豫母都志許賣此六字以音。令追。

   • 720: Nihon Shoki

     于時、伊奘冉尊恨曰、何不用要言、令吾恥辱、乃遣泉津醜女八人、一云、泉津日狹女、追留之。

References

• Kurano, Kenji with Yūkichi Takeda (1958) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Kojiki, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
• Sakamoto, Tarō with Ienaga Saburō, Inoue Mitsusada, Ōno Susumu (1967) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 67: Nihon Shoki, volume 1, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN