さんぜ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of さんぜ – see the following entry.
【三世】
[noun] (Buddhism) the "three lives", namely 前世 (zense, “previous life”), 現世 (gense, “current life”) and 来世 (raise)/後世 (gose, “next life”)
[noun] three generations, as in parents, children and grandchildren
[noun] the tertiary relationship between master and servant, in contrast with 一世 (isse, primary relationship between parents and children) and 二世 (nise, secondary relationship between spouses)
(This term, さんぜ (sanze), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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