ししゅう [shishū]
1. Poetry anthology 詩集
2. Embroidery 刺繍
3. Putrid smell of a corpse 死臭
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Another gruesome phrase: 死屍累々 ししるいるい [shishiruirui] ‘heaps of corpses all around’
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Why does Japanese have so much severed head vocabulary? It’s got to be the fault of the samurai somehow.pic.twitter.com/HyKk29dQzr
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Wait, is there actually a kanji for "severed head"
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Would really like to know why the kanji for owl is used here - as in 梟首, ‘owl neck’ - but struggling to find answers online...
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