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新盆
にいぼんあらぼんしんぼん [rk]
1. [n]
▶ first Bon Festival following the death of a family member
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 1002690 お盆 1. Obon; Bon Festival; Buddhist festival for honouring the spirits of one's ancestors, held in mid-August or in some regions, mid-July



History:
6. A 2025-08-24 21:22:59  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
5. A* 2025-08-24 13:35:12  Sombrero1
  Refs:
https://furigana.info/w/新盆
読み方	割合
にいぼん	85.7%
あらぼん	14.3%

しんぼん only in nikk, and oukoku with a reference to にいぼん; [rk]
あらぼん is in most references

Interestingly 新盆・にいぼん has 0 hits in BCCWJ (though 3 in CEJC) compared to 35 for 新盆・あらぼん.
新盆・しんぼん has 0 as expected.

Yet references seem more inclined towards にいぼん, with frequency data from JPDBv2 also pointing towards it.
Leaving those two be for now


Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 新盆 │ 52.997 │ 45.7% │
│ 初盆 │ 62.903 │ 54.3% │
╰─ーー─┴────────┴───────╯
  Comments:
Aligning gloss with 初盆
  Diff:
@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<re_inf>&rk;</re_inf>
@@ -18 +19,2 @@
-<gloss>first Obon following someone's death</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="1002690">お盆・1</xref>
+<gloss>first Bon Festival following the death of a family member</gloss>
4. A 2020-07-03 22:25:09  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2020-07-03 20:55:03  Opencooper
  Diff:
@@ -18 +18 @@
-<gloss>first Obon following one's death</gloss>
+<gloss>first Obon following someone's death</gloss>
2. A 2013-08-12 10:43:17  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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