Oyashirazu - Wisdom tooth

Japanese: 親不知 - おやしらず

[1] [noun] ① A person who is adopted by someone immediately after birth or an orphan, and who does not know the face of his or her birth parents. Also, the person. ② A newborn baby who is given to or adopted by a stranger with the promise that the newborn baby will never be in contact with the other person again. Also, the adopted child. An adopted child who will never be seen again. ※Ukiyo-zoshi, Keisei Kintanki (1711), Volume 3 "I was given 20 momme of my salary to put in a box so that neither the parents nor the child would know." ③ A dangerous beach with rough waves that leaves no time for parents to look back at their children, or for children to look back at their parents. ④ An abbreviation of "oyashirazuba (parents unknown teeth)." [Latin-Portuguese Dictionary (1595)] *Silver Spoon (1913-15) <Naka Kansuke> later "Even if we leave out the parents, there are twenty-eight of them." [2] [1] The fault coastline from Tonami, Oumi Town, to Ichiburi , in the southwestern tip of Niigata Prefecture. The Hokuriku Kaido road passes along the shoreline below the cliffs, and it is said to have been so named because when the waves were surging, neither parents nor children had time to look back. Oyashirazukoshirazu . [2] The road near where Mt. Satta, on the eastern edge of Shizuoka City's Shimizu Ward, meets the sea. A difficult section of the Tokaido. Oyashirazukoshirazu .

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Japanese:

[1] 〘名〙① 生まれてすぐ他人に養われ、または孤児となって、生みの親の顔を知らないこと。また、その人。② 生まれて間もない子を、以後いっさい、便りなどしないという約束で、養子として他人にやったり、他人から貰ったりすること。また、その養子。一生不通養子。※浮世草子・傾城禁短気（1711）三「給銀の中から廿匁付て、親しらず子知らずの堅めにて貰ひ」③ 波が荒くて、親は子を、子は親をかえりみる暇もないほどの危険な海岸。④ 「おやしらずば（親不知歯）」の略。〔羅葡日辞書（1595）〕※銀の匙（1913‐15）〈中勘助〉後「親しらずをのけて二十八本ありましょがなも」[2][一] 新潟県南西端、青海(おうみ)町外波(となみ)から市振までの断層海岸。絶壁下の波打際を北陸街道が通り、波が寄せる時は親も子をかえりみるひまもなかったところからの名という。親不知子不知(おやしらずこしらず)。[二] 静岡市清水区の東端にある薩埵(さった)山が海にせまる付近の道。東海道の難所。親不知子不知(おやしらずこしらず)。

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