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虛無僧

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Basic Meaning: komusō

Senses:

  • An itinerant monk of the Fukeshū 普化宗, who wanders the land begging for alms while playing the shakuhachi flute 尺八 and wearing a face obscuring reed hat 天蓋. Served also as a reoccurring character type in Tokugawa period art. See 薦僧 for more details. [Jason Josephson]
  • More detailed entries are found in the Iwanami Dictionary, Foguang Dictionary and others listed below. [Charles Muller]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 263

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 360b

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 282

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 179a/198

    Zen Dust (Sasaki) 202

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 351b

    Fo Guang Dictionary 5268

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)1366a,1042b,4400a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 471-3*1516-2-12, 471-3

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    Entry created: 2005-03-02

    Updated: 2020-08-07