Misfortune - Yaku

Japanese: 厄 - やく

〘noun〙① Misfortune. Misfortune. Calamity. Disaster. Trouble. ※Ryōiki (810-824), Vol. 1: "I begged to save my father from misfortune." ② Abbreviation of "yakudoshi (unlucky year)." [Iroha Jiruishō (1177-81)] ※Jitaka Koki - Entoku 2 (1490), February 7th, "Prayer for an exception during the current year's misfortune." ※Shakai Hyakumensō (1902), Uchida Roan, A Dog Story, "First of all, this will save me from 19 misfortunes ." ③ Smallpox . Like an unlucky year, it is said because it was something that was experienced once in a lifetime. ※Sakehon, Daigekijyūki Sekai no Makunashi (The Curtains of the Great Theater) (1782), "It seems that O-Chiyo-san also performed a yakudoshi."

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Japanese:

〘名〙① わざわい。まがごと。災難。災厄。厄難。※霊異記（810‐824）上「父の厄を救はむと請ふ」② 「やくどし（厄年）」の略。〔色葉字類抄（1177‐81）〕※実隆公記‐延徳二年（1490）二月七日「当年御厄之間別而御願云々」※社会百面相（1902）〈内田魯庵〉犬物語「先づ是で十九の厄(ヤク)を免れて」③ 疱瘡(ほうそう)のこと。厄年と同じで、生涯に一度は経験するものであったところからいう。※洒落本・大劇場世界の幕なし（1782）「ホンニお千代さんもおやくをなすったそふで御座ります」

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