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)

A Buddhist monk begging as a komusō

Pronunciation

On’yomi

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

Noun

虚(こ)無(む)僧(そう) • (komusō)

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

References

2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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