Where does “裸参り” come from?
裸参り (Japanese) comes from Japanese 参り, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
裸参り (Japanese): visiting a shrine or temple naked in winter
Definitions
- visiting a shrine or temple naked in winter
Ancestry of “裸参り”, step by step
裸参り traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese 参り
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 参り | visiting a shrine or temple |
| 2 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 4 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 5 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 6 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 7 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |