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元服
げんぷくげんぶく
1. [n,vs] [hist]
▶ male coming-of-age-ceremony
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1210260 冠婚葬祭【かんこんそうさい】 1. important ceremonial occasions in family relationships
  ⇐ see: 1190040 加冠【かかん】 1. crowning a boy with a traditional cap for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony
  ⇐ see: 2585080 初冠【ういこうぶり】 1. crowning a boy for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony
  ⇐ see: 2594870 小冠者【こかんじゃ】 1. young man (who has recently undergone his manhood ceremony)
2. [n,vs] [hist]
▶ shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (of a newly married woman; Edo period)
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 1216800 丸髷 1. traditional married woman's hair style with an oval chignon on top

Conjugations


History:
11. A 2021-10-05 11:20:30  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
10. A* 2021-10-05 10:47:18  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I think we have to fit "woman" in there somewhere.
  Diff:
@@ -24 +24 @@
-<gloss>shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (when newly married; Edo period)</gloss>
+<gloss>shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (of a newly married woman; Edo period)</gloss>
9. A* 2021-10-04 09:05:06  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
somewhat simpler?
  Diff:
@@ -24 +24 @@
-<gloss>(of a newly married woman in the Edo period) shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style</gloss>
+<gloss>shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (when newly married; Edo period)</gloss>
8. A 2021-02-05 21:15:53  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
We tend to put period info in a note when it pertains specifically to usage of the term (rather than what the term refers to). See 窮理学 for an example. We have 199 entries that contain "(Edo period)" in the gloss.
I think this works.
  Diff:
@@ -24,2 +24 @@
-<s_inf>Edo period</s_inf>
-<gloss>(of a newly married woman) shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style</gloss>
+<gloss>(of a newly married woman in the Edo period) shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style</gloss>
7. A* 2021-02-05 08:31:41  Opencooper
  Comments:
Strange to have a gloss bookended by parenthesis. I think in our current style we put period info in a note.
  Diff:
@@ -24 +24,2 @@
-<gloss>(of a newly married woman) shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (Edo period)</gloss>
+<s_inf>Edo period</s_inf>
+<gloss>(of a newly married woman) shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style</gloss>
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