Practice JLPTMeaning
身投げ (みなげ, minage) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “suicide by drowning or jumping”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 8
彼は 崖から 身投げした
He threw himself from the cliff.
彼女はある湖に身投げした。
She drowned herself in some lake.
彼女はある 湖に 身投げした。
She drowned herself in some lake.
入り身投げ：相手の背後に入身して後ろ襟を取り相手を後方へ引き崩す。
Irimi-nage: Irimi (entering straight into a technique) from behind the opponent is used to grab the rear collar and pull the opponent backwards.
人物設定：千寿姫を騙し身投げさせた後、日本駄右衛門の手下となり、女装して恐喝と窃盗を働く。
Character setting: Person who worked under Daemon NIPPON and committed blackmail and a theft after deceiving Senju Hime and causing her to thrown herself into the water.
情けない思い、しかし改心しきった長兵衛が、帰り道に吾妻橋にさしかかると、身投げをしようとしている男にでくわす。
When Chobei, who was so ashamed, but reformed, was about to cross Azuma-bashi Bridge, he ran into a man who was about to fall off the bridge to drown himself.
警察は彼が船から身投げしたと思っている. The police suspect that he threw himself overboard.千寿姫を身投げさせた菊之助を手下にする。
Daemon subordinated Kikunosuke who caused Senju Hime (Lady Senju) to throw herself into the water.
丹後の伝承によると、忠房には白拍子花松との間との間に遺児がおり、平家滅亡を聞いた彼女は丹後に潜んでいたが源氏の捜索が及ぶのを恐れ、子供を道連れとみせかけて自ら岩から身投げをしたという話も残っている。
According to Tango Province legend, stories remain that Tadafusa had a child with a prostitute named Hanamatsu who hid in Tango upon hearing about the downfall of the Taira family, but she feared that she would be discovered by the Minamoto clan so threw herself from a rock, making it appear as if she had taken her child with her with her.