Baby - Ubugo

Japanese: 産子 - うぶご

〘Noun〙 (also "ubuko") A newborn baby. Akago. ※Otogi-zoshi Hirano Yomigaeri no Soushi (collected in Muromachi Jidai Monogatarishu) (Muromachi period) "When I saw the land of the dead sea, <abbreviation> I hated people, I held a newborn baby, and could not hear a thing." ※Joruri Kochi Hoin Godenki (1685) First section "One is a newborn baby, and when I see a dead person, I am dead."

Ubu-ko [baby born]

〘Noun〙 A person who shares the same ubusunagami (guardian deity of the land) . ※Shinto Myoho Ruijusho (1699) 4 "A child born in this land shall have the upper and lower Goryosha shrines as its birth shrines, and the child shall be called the Goryo's child (ubuko) ."

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Japanese:

〘名〙 (「うぶこ」とも) 生まれたての子。あかご。※御伽草子・平野よみがへりの草紙（室町時代物語集所収）（室町中）「うみながしの地ごくを、見候へば〈略〉人ををく、うぶこをいだき、物おともきこへず」※浄瑠璃・弘知法印御伝記（1685）初段「一人はただ今生れしうぶ子にて、死人をみれば我つま也」