Word Meaning 地蔵盆

じぞうぼん jizoubon

地蔵盆 is read as じぞうぼん (jizoubon) and means Jizo Festival.

Meaning

English

Jizo Festival
child-focused religious festival, in which Jizo statues are decorated, esp. in Kyoto; held on August 23-24

Reading

Kana

じぞうぼん

Romaji

jizoubon

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 30 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 4級 Rank 97131 Priority P

Related Vocabulary

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地蔵

じぞう

Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld)

地蔵顔

じぞうがお

gentle and round face

地蔵堂

じぞうどう

temple hall with a Kshitigarbha (Jizo) image

地蔵尊

じぞうそん

Jizo (guardian deity of children)

地蔵菩薩本願経

じぞうぼさつほんがんきょう

Sutra of the Original Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva

地蔵菩薩

じぞうぼさつ

Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld)

盆地

ぼんち

basin (e.g. between mountains)

愚痴聞き地蔵

ぐちききじぞう

Ksitigarbha (jizo) who listens to people's complaints (statue at the Keihou Temple at Nagoya)

断層盆地

だんそうぼんち

fault basin

子安地蔵

こやすじぞう

guardian Ksitigarbha of childbirth (bodhisattva)

水子地蔵

みずこじぞう

Ksitigarbha statue erected to help deliver miscarried and aborted fetuses to buddhahood (foetuses)

六地蔵

ろくじぞう

the Six Ksitigarbhas (one for each of the six realms)