沐もく浴よく

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

bathing (of an infant); ritual bathing

Often used for the ritual bathing of a newborn, or more broadly for ceremonial purification by water. Can also refer to bathing in a religious context.

• 生せい後ご一いっヶか月げつの赤あかちゃんの沐もく浴よくを手伝てつだった。

  I helped with the ritual bathing of the one-month-old baby.

• 神じん社じゃで沐もく浴よくして身みを清きよめた。

  I purified myself by bathing at the shrine.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

ablution; ritual washing

Refers to a religious or ceremonial washing, often in a spiritual context. More formal than 沐浴 in the infant sense.

• 僧そう侶りょは毎まい朝あさ、沐もく浴よくを行おこなう。

  The monk performs ablutions every morning.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

receiving a blessing (archaic)

Archaic sense referring to receiving a blessing, possibly through a ritual washing or purification. Rarely used in modern Japanese.

• 古ふるい文ぶん献けんでは、沐もく浴よくが祝しゅく福ふくを受うける行こう為いとして記しるされている。

  In old texts, 沐浴 is recorded as an act of receiving a blessing.