せんばづる

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of せんばづる – see the following entry.

【千羽鶴】 [noun] a set of one thousand origami cranes held by a string, originally dedicated to a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple, now used to bring good luck to those in recovery or as a gift [noun] a colorful crane pattern (for example, in dyeing) [proper noun] a novel by Yasunari Kawabata

(This term, せんばづる, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)