くぎやう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of くぎやう – see the following entries.
【公卿くぎょう】
[noun] (politics, historical) a court nobleman; the nobility
[noun] a small lacquered 膳 (zen, “tray table”) used by kugyō nobles
Alternative spellings
供饗, 公饗
【苦行くぎょう】
[noun] strenuous work
[noun] (Buddhism) practicing asceticism
[verb] to do strenuous work
[verb] (Buddhism) to follow ascetic practices
(This term, くぎやう (kugyau), is a historical kana spelling of the above terms.)
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.