Word Meaning 越後獅子

えちごじし echigojishi

越後獅子 is read as えちごじし (echigojishi) and means street performance by itinerant entertainers featuring a tumbling act in which a child performer wears a carved lion's head.

Meaning

English

  1. street performance by itinerant entertainers featuring a tumbling act in which a child performer wears a carved lion's head

Reading

Kana

えちごじし

Romaji

echigojishi

Stroke Sequence

4 Characters • 37 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

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越後

えちご

Echigo (former province located in present-day Niigata Prefecture)

越後屋

えちごや

Echigoya

越後兎

えちごうさぎ

Lepus brachyurus lyoni (subspecies of Japanese hare)

獅子

しし

left-hand (stone) guardian lion-dog at a Shinto shrine

小獅子

こじし

lion cub

角兵衛獅子

かくべじし

traveling entertainer who wears a lion mask and does tumbling acts

神楽獅子

かぐらじし

kagurajishi camellia (Camellia japonica var.)

鏡獅子

かがみじし

Kagamijishi

唐獅子

からじし

(Chinese-style figure of a) lion

獅子舞

ししまい

lion dance

子宮後屈

しきゅうこうくつ

retroversion of the uterus