embodiment; incarnation; personification
Refers to a person who embodies an abstract quality, ideal, or concept. Often used in the pattern ...の体現者.
He is truly the embodiment of hard work.
She is known as the personification of kindness.
化身 often implies a supernatural or divine incarnation, whereas 体現者 is more commonly used for human embodiments of abstract qualities.
Compound of 体現 (たいげん, 'embodiment') + 者 (しゃ, 'person'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word follows a common pattern for forming agent nouns.