合がっ掌しょう

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

pressing one's hands together in prayer; gassho

The gesture of placing palms together, often in Buddhist or Shinto prayer, but also used in everyday greetings and thanks.

• お寺てらで合がっ掌しょうして祈いのった。

  I pressed my hands together in prayer at the temple.

• 食しょく事じの前まえに合がっ掌しょうする習しゅう慣かんがある。

  There is a custom of putting one's hands together before meals.

noun

triangular frame of a thatched roof

Architectural term for the triangular gable frame in traditional thatched roofs, resembling hands pressed together.

• 合がっ掌しょう造づくりの屋や根ねは合がっ掌しょうと呼よばれる三さん角かく形けいの骨ほね組ぐみで支ささえられている。

  The roof of a gassho-style house is supported by a triangular frame called gassho.

expression

yours sincerely; yours truly

Used as a closing phrase in Buddhist correspondence, similar to 'sincerely yours' in English letters.

See also: 敬具

• 手て紙がみの最さい後ごに「合がっ掌しょう」と書かかれていた。

  At the end of the letter, 'Gassho' was written.