行ぎょう者じゃ

noun

ascetic; pilgrim; devotee

Refers to a person who engages in rigorous spiritual training, often involving mountain pilgrimages, fasting, and other austerities. Commonly associated with Shugendō practitioners.

• 山やま伏ぶしは古ふるくから行ぎょう者じゃとして知しられている。

  Yamabushi have long been known as ascetics.

• 彼かれは四し国こく遍へん路ろの行ぎょう者じゃだ。

  He is a pilgrim on the Shikoku pilgrimage.