大和魂

Japanese
Kanji in this term
大 和 魂
やまと たましい > だましい
Grade: S
Grade: 1 Grade: 3
jukujikun kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 大和(やまと) (Yamato, “Yamato Province → Japan”) + 魂(たましい) (tamashii, “soul, spirit”).

The tamashii changes to damashii as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) やまとだ​ましい [yàmátódáꜜmàshìì] (Nakadaka – [4])[1][2][3]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠ma̠to̞da̠ma̠ɕiː]

Noun

大和(やまと)魂(だましい) • (Yamato-damashii) ←やまとだましひ (yamatodamasifi)?

  1. the Japanese spirit
    • 1859, tanka by Yoshida Shōin (also Aikoku Hyakunin Isshu, poem 77)
      身(み)はたとひ武蔵(むさし)の野辺(のべ)に朽(く)ちぬとも留(とど)め置(お)かまし大和(やまと)魂(だましひ)
      mi wa tatoi Musashi no nobe ni kuchinu to mo todome okamashi Yamato-damashii
      Though my corpse rot beneath the ground of Musashi, my soul remains forever Japanese[4]
  2. (figurative) the unique qualities or traits of the Japanese people

Synonyms

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  3. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. Yoel Hoffmann (1998) Peter Koslowski, editor, Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, page 55
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