48 years of age
Rare literary term for the age of 48, using the kanji 桑 (mulberry) as a traditional numeric substitute. Not used in everyday conversation; modern Japanese would simply say 四十八歳.
A haiku gathering was held to commemorate reaching the age of 48.
Rare kanji spelling for a literary age term; the character 桑 is associated with the number 48 in traditional counting.
Variant kanji form; rarely used.
A traditional age name based on analyzing 桑 as three 十 components and one 八, whose values total forty-eight.