艮: northeast (old direction)

northeast (old direction)

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Readings

コン・ゴン

Kun

うしとら

艮 is the old northeast (丑寅, うしとら), the unlucky 'demon gate' direction; 儒艮 (dugong) is its other common word.

艮うしとらnortheast (old direction)

儒艮じゅごんdugong

艮ごんgen (I Ching trigram)

桂艮町かつらうしとらちょうKatsura-Ushitora-chō (Kyoto)

古ふるい家いえでは、艮うしとらの方角ほうがくに玄関げんかんを作つくるのを避さけたという。

They say that in old houses people avoided putting the entrance in the northeast.

水族館すいぞくかんで、儒艮じゅごんがゆっくり泳およぐ姿すがたをしばらく眺ながめた。

At the aquarium, I watched a dugong swim slowly for a while.

桂艮町かつらうしとらちょうは、京都きょうと市し西京にしきょう区くの桂かつらにある町名ちょうめいだ。

Katsura-Ushitora-chō is a neighborhood name in Katsura, Nishikyō Ward, Kyoto.