義眼

Japanese

義(ぎ)眼(がん) • (gigan)

artificial eye
- 1914, 夏目漱石 [Natsume Sōseki], chapter 48, in こゝろ [Kokoro], 下先生と遺書 [Sensei's Testament]:
  私(わたくし)の眼(め)は彼(かれ)の室(へや)の中(なか)を一目見(ひとめみ)るや否(いな)や、あたかも硝子(ガラス)で作(つく)った義眼(ぎがん)のように、動(うご)く能力(のうりょく)を失(うしな)いました。
  Watakushi no me wa kare no heya no naka o hitome miru ya ina ya, atakamo garasu de tsukutta gigan no yō ni, ugoku nōryoku o ushinaimashita.
  As soon as I took one look into his room, my eyes, as though they were [artificial eyes] made of glass, lost the ability to move.

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (2016), NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2020), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Eighth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN