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jmdict 1388950 Active (id: 2084188)
千人針
せんにんばり
1. [n]
▶ 1000-stitch belt
▶ [expl] soldier's charm with stitches by a thousand women



History:
2. A 2020-10-14 11:06:31  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2020-10-14 07:45:21  Opencooper
  Refs:
* wisdom:  good-luck-charm cotton belt for soldiers with 1,000 red stitches made by 1,000 women.
* chuujiten: a soldier's good-luck belt with a thousand stitches embroidered by a thousand different women
* prog: a soldier's good-luck belt with stitches made by one thousand women

* jawiki: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/千人針 (notes that its power lies in the idea of 
mass prayer)
  Comments:
Our current gloss is how gg5 does it (though it places it after the explanation), but it would really be 
lacking if it omits the part that these are single stitches by a thousand different women. Luminous has 
"thousand-stitch cloth" and then an explanatory gloss, so I think that's an approach we can take.
  Diff:
@@ -12 +12,2 @@
-<gloss>1000-stitch belt (soldier's charm)</gloss>
+<gloss>1000-stitch belt</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">soldier's charm with stitches by a thousand women</gloss>

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