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薩: Satsuma

Satsuma; Buddhist saint
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Readings

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サツ・サチ
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Sound-kanji in 菩薩 (bodhisattva); also short for the old Satsuma province (now Kagoshima), as in 薩摩 and 薩長.

Key words

菩薩ぼさつbodhisattva
薩摩さつまSatsuma (old province)
薩摩芋さつまいもsweet potato
薩長さっちょうSatsuma and Choshu

Example sentences

In the temple's main hall stands a statue of a bodhisattva with a gentle face.

I bought a piping hot sweet potato at the baked-sweet-potato stand.

In the last years of the shogunate, Satsuma and Choshu joined hands and opened a new era.

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