Where does “kawarimi” come from?
kawarimi (English) comes from Japanese 変わり身, from Japanese 身, from Japanese み, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
kawarimi (English): A ninja technique relying on misdirection to quickly switch the ninja’s body with something that can be mistaken for it, such as a dummy, a mannequin, or another body
Definitions
- A ninja technique relying on misdirection to quickly switch the ninja’s body with something that can be mistaken for it, such as a dummy, a mannequin, or another body
Ancestry of “kawarimi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 変わり身 | a quick shift of position; flexibility in... |
| 2 | Japanese | 身 | a body; a living body; a dead body, a corpse |
| 3 | Japanese | み | 身 body; 実 fruit; nut; content; 霊, 神 spirit; god |
| 4 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 5 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 6 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 7 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 8 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |