くぎょう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of くぎょう – see the following entries.
【公卿】
[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】
[noun] strenuous work
[noun] (Buddhism) practicing asceticism
[verb] to do strenuous work
[verb] (Buddhism) to follow ascetic practices
(This term, くぎょう (kugyō), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
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