釁きん端たん

noun

opening of hostilities; start of a conflict

A rare, literary term for the beginning of a war or armed conflict. Not used in everyday conversation.

• 歴れき史し書しょには、その戦せん争そうの釁きん端たんが詳くわしく記しるされている。

  The history book describes in detail the opening of hostilities of that war.