入道前太政大臣

Japanese

Kanji in this term
入	道	前	太	政	大	臣
にゅう Grade: 1	どう Grade: 2	さき Grade: 2	だい Grade: 2	しょう > じょう Grade: 5	だい Grade: 1	じん Grade: 4
goon		kun’yomi	kan’yōon	goon

Etymology

Compound of 入道 (nyūdō, “monk; lay novice”) +‎ 前 (saki, “former, previous”) +‎ の (no, genitive particle) +‎ 太政大臣 (daijō-daijin, “grand chancellor”, literally “imperial government + cabinet minister”).

Literally the “lay novice and former chancellor”.

Proper noun

入道前太政大臣(にゅうどうさきのだいじょうだいじん) • (Nyūdō Saki no Daijō-daijin) ^{←にふだうさきのだいじやうだいじん (Nifudau Saki no Daizyau-daizin)?}

1. courtesy title of Saionji Kintsune, Kamakura-period poet and nobleman
   • 1235, Shinchokusen Wakashū (book 16, poem 1052 by the lay priest and former Chancellor; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 96)

     花(はな)さそふ嵐(あらし)の庭(には)の雪(ゆき)ならでふりゆくものはわが身(み)なりけり

     hana sasou arashi no niwa no yuki narade furi yuku mono wa waga mi narikeri

     Blossoms flurry in with the storm, but the garden’s snow scatters naught but the years of my life.