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天邪鬼天の邪鬼天ん邪鬼天之邪鬼 [rK] 天邪久 [rK]
あまのじゃく (天邪鬼, 天の邪鬼, 天之邪鬼, 天邪久)あまんじゃく (天邪鬼, 天ん邪鬼)
1. [n,adj-na,adj-no]
▶ perversity
▶ perverse person
▶ contrary person
▶ contrarian
2. [n]
▶ antagonistic demon in Japanese folklore
3. [n]
▶ demon under the feet of temple guardian statues



History:
6. A 2022-06-09 01:29:55  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Looks OK. 天之邪鬼 is hardly worth it.
5. A* 2022-06-08 15:46:33  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
nikk has あまんじゃく as a reading of 天邪鬼

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
| 天邪鬼    | 126,102 | 50.8% |
| 天の邪鬼   |  32,499 | 13.1% |
| 天ん邪鬼   |      53 |  0.0% | <- in daijr, koj
| 天之邪鬼   |      33 |  0.0% |
| 天邪久    |       0 |  0.0% | <- in koj
| あまのじゃく |  83,672 | 33.7% |
| あまんじゃく |   5,902 |  2.4% |

JP wikipedia was cited as a source for 天之邪鬼 in the edit history, but I don't see it in the article.
I know 之 is an alternate way of writing の... I guess that's sufficient?
  Diff:
@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
@@ -17,0 +19 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
@@ -27,0 +30 @@
+<re_restr>天邪鬼</re_restr>
4. A 2019-07-31 00:39:06  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
天邪鬼	126102
天の邪鬼	32499
天之邪鬼	33
天邪久	< 20   - in Koj
天ん邪鬼	53
  Diff:
@@ -10,0 +11,3 @@
+<keb>天ん邪鬼</keb>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
@@ -16,3 +18,0 @@
-<k_ele>
-<keb>天ん邪鬼</keb>
-</k_ele>
@@ -20,0 +21,4 @@
+<re_restr>天邪鬼</re_restr>
+<re_restr>天の邪鬼</re_restr>
+<re_restr>天之邪鬼</re_restr>
+<re_restr>天邪久</re_restr>
@@ -23,0 +28 @@
+<re_restr>天ん邪鬼</re_restr>
3. A* 2019-07-30 18:34:07  Michael Sué <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/天邪鬼
  Comments:
天ん邪鬼 and 天の邪鬼 are alternate forms. So you could remove the 天ん邪鬼 entry.
  Diff:
@@ -10,0 +11,3 @@
+<keb>天之邪鬼</keb>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
@@ -11,0 +15,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>天ん邪鬼</keb>
@@ -14,0 +21,3 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>あまんじゃく</reb>
2. A 2015-01-13 07:26:56  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
gg5
 a devil (whose image is shown being trampled upon by one of the two guardian deities placed in a Buddhist temple gate); 〔性質〕 perverseness; 〔人〕 a perverse person; a cross-grained person.
==
wisdom
【つむじ曲がり】a contrary [a perverse] person.
prog
〔わざと逆らう性質〕perversity, a warped personality; 〔人〕a perverse [contrary] person, a cross-grained person
eij
あまのじゃくな
【形】
    perverse(人が)
  Comments:
restoring 'perverse'
  Diff:
@@ -19,0 +20,3 @@
+<gloss>perversity</gloss>
+<gloss>perverse person</gloss>
+<gloss>contrary person</gloss>
@@ -21 +23,0 @@
-<gloss>contrary person</gloss>
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