華け鬘まん

noun

Buddhist decorative pendant; gilt-copper temple ornament

A specific Buddhist ritual object: a fan-shaped or circular metal decoration, often gilt copper, hung in temple inner shrines or on altar canopies. Not a general decoration term.

• 内ない陣じんの天てん蓋がいに華け鬘まんが飾かざられていた。

  A keman was hung from the canopy in the inner sanctuary.

• この華け鬘まんは鎌かま倉くら時じ代だいの作さくと伝つたえられている。

  This keman is said to date from the Kamakura period.