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jmnedict 5567548 Active (id: 2228092)
独眼竜独眼龍
どくがんりゅう
1. [given]
▶ Dokuganryū (nickname of Date Masamune)
▶ One-Eyed Dragon of Ōshu



History:
3. A 2023-04-07 07:43:09  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I'll propose that.
2. A* 2023-04-04 19:05:16  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_Masamune
'An outstanding tactician, he was made all the more iconic for his missing eye, as Masamune was often called dokuganryū (独眼竜), or the "One-Eyed Dragon of Ōshu".'

gg5: a one-eyed hero.
saito: (Literally) a one-eyed dragon; (commonly) a one-eyed man

also in daijr/s, koj, and shinmeikai. 

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 独眼竜     │ 31,608 │ 78.6% │
│ 独眼龍     │  7,117 │ 17.7% │
│ どくがんりゅう │  1,487 │  3.7% │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
  Comments:
Perhaps this needs an entry in JMdict as well
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>独眼龍</keb>
@@ -12 +15,2 @@
-<gloss>Dokuganryū</gloss>
+<gloss>Dokuganryū (nickname of Date Masamune)</gloss>
+<gloss>One-Eyed Dragon of Ōshu</gloss>
1. A 2021-08-10 01:48:50  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
 ryuu to ryū conversion
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff:
@@ -12 +12 @@
-<gloss>Dokuganryuu</gloss>
+<gloss>Dokuganryū</gloss>

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