薬指: 29 Terms and Phrases

• 薬指
• ring finger
• fourth finger
• Third finger.

• 服薬指導
• patient compliance instruction

• （特に左手の）薬指
• the third finger (especially of the left hand)

• 人差し指と薬指の間にある
• between the index finger and the ring finger

• 彼女は左手の薬指にダイヤの指輪をはめていた。
• She wore a diamond ring on her left third finger.

• 親指、人差し指、中指、薬指の四指を覆う形状。
• It has a form which covers thumb, forefinger, middle finger and annular finger.

• 左手は人差し指を伸ばし、中指、薬指、小指は親指を握る。
• It is formed by the left hand with the forefinger stretched and the thumb clenched by the middle, annular and little fingers.

• そのため昔は薬指のことを「紅指し指」と呼んだ事もある。
• Therefore the third finger was sometimes called 'benisashi yubi' (which literally means 'a finger to apply beni') in the past.

• 両手を胸の高さまで上げ、親指と人差し指（または中指、薬指）で輪をつくる。
• It is formed by both hands pointing upward in front of the chest with the thumbs and the forefingers (or otherwise, the middle or annular fingers) forming a circle.

• 薬指から親指に掛ける為、三ツガケより取り掛け（弦の保持）が楽であるとされる。
• It is considered that torikake (nocking on with the right hand) is easier than mitsugake since a string is hooked by the annular finger, the middle finger, the forefinger and the thumb.

• 人差し指・中指・薬指・小指はまっすぐそろえたほうが、より洗練された持ちかたに見える。
• While holding a bowl, you had better straighten your forefinger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger all in parallel so that you may look more refined.

• 彼女は彼女の左手の薬指の上でダイヤのイアリングをゆるめて、ふざけて彼にそれを差し出した
• she loosened the half-hoop of diamonds on her left hand third finger and held it out to him playfully

• 阿弥陀如来の場合は、両手を胸の高さまで上げ親指と人差し指（または中指、薬指）で輪をつくるものもある。
• In the case of Amida Nyorai, there may be a statue assuming inso formed by both hands pointing upward in front of the chest with the thumbs and the forefingers (or otherwise, the second or third fingers) forming a circle.

• 1960年8月18日、京都大学の20歳の学生が弥勒菩薩像に触れ、像の右手薬指が折れるという事件が起こった。
• On August 18, 1960, a 20-year-old student of Kyoto University touched the statue of Maitreya and broke its ring finger of the right hand.

• 阿弥陀如来の印相には数種類あるが、いずれの場合も親指と人差し指（または中指、薬指）で輪をつくるのが原則である。
• There are several types of inso assumed by Amida Nyorai, any of which is formed in principle by the thumbs and the forefingers (or otherwise, the middle or annular fingers) forming a circle.

• 太く長い調緒を使って張りつめた皮を素手で打つのは大変痛いので、中指や薬指に「指皮」をはめ、掌（てのひら）に「当て皮」をつける。
• Because it is very painful to hit with a bare-hand leather mounted with the thick, long hemp rope, 'finger leather (Yubikawa)' are worn on the middle finger and the ring finger with 'leather (Ategawa)' placed on the palm.

• 施無畏与願印に似て、右手を上げて左手を下げて共に手のひらを前に向け、それぞれの手の親指と人差し指（または中指、薬指）で輪をつくる。
• Similar to Semui-Yogan-in, it is formed by the right hand turned upward and the left hand turned downward with both palms facing outward and the thumb and forefinger (or otherwise, the middle or annular finger) of each hand forming a circle.

• 取り掛けは右手親指根辺りで弦を保持し、筈を人差し指根で抱え込むように保持する蒙古式を取る（洋弓は人差し指〜薬指で弦を保持する地中海式）。
• The tsuru (bowstring) is held at the bottom of the right thumb and hazu (nock of an arrow) is held in a Mongolian style by with an index finger (the western bow holds the string with the index to the ring finger in a Mediterranean style).

• 中でも有名な京都府京都市太秦の広隆寺霊宝殿に安置されている「宝冠弥勒」(国宝第一号)は、右手の薬指を頬にあてて物思いにふける姿で知られる。
• One of the most famous Maitreya statues is 'Maitreya with berretta' (the first natural treasure) kept in the Reiho-den of Koryu-ji Temple in Uzumasa, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, and it is known for his posture in which he is lost in thought with the right ring finger on his cheek.

• 滑り止めに「ギリ粉（ぎりこ：松脂を煮詰めて乾燥、粉末状に砕いたもの）」を中指〜人指し指、或は薬指〜人指し指と親指先にまぶし、馴染ませて使用する。
• As an anti-slip technique, they dust the middle finger to the forefinger, or from an annular finger to a forefinger and a thumb tip with 'giriko rosin powder' (pine resin is boiled down, dried and broken into powdered state) and make it fit in.

• 阿弥陀如来の定印は密教では法界定印とされるが、浄土教などでの場合は同じように両手を重ねて親指と人差し指（または中指、薬指）で輪をつくるものもある。
• According to Esoteric Buddhism, Jo-in assumed by Amida Nyorai is supposed to be Hokkaijo-in; however, a variation formed by both hands placed together in the same manner and the thumbs and the forefingers (or otherwise, the middle or annular fingers) forming a circle may be assumed by Amida Nyorai of the Jodo Sect, and so on.

• 三ツガケは親指・人差指・中指、四ツガケは親指〜薬指までを覆い、親指には木（或は水牛等の角）を指筒状に刳り貫いたものが親指全体を覆うように仕込まれている。
• Mitsugake covers the thumb, the forefinger and the middle finger and yotsugake covers fingers from the thumb to the annular finger and it is equipped with a thimble-like wood (or a horn of water buffalo and so on) which is hollowed out, covering a whole of the thumb.

• 通常の阿弥陀如来像は親指と人差し指（または中指、薬指）で輪をつくる印相を結ぶが、当寺の阿弥陀如来像は下げた右手の指を5本とも真っ直ぐ伸ばしている点が珍しい。
• Statues of Amida Nyorai ordinarily depict him forming a circular mudra (Buddhist hand gesture) with the thumb and index finger (or middle finger and ring finger) but the Amida Statue of Nison-in Temple is unique as all five fingers on its lowered right hand are straight.

• この戦いののち、河野四郎左衛門を伴っての湯屋からの帰りに神田三河町で一刀流の剣客鈴木隼人ら3人の刺客に襲われ、1人を斬り撃退したが、左手中指と薬指を失った。
• After this battle, he was attacked by three assassins including Hayato SUZUKI, an Ittoryu swordmaster, on his way back from a bathhouse at Kanda-mikawa-cho Town, accompanied by Shirozaemon KONO, and lost the middle and ring finger of the left hand, although he killed one with his sword and held off the other assassins.

• ユガケの親指根には弦が引っかかる程度の浅い段差（弦枕）が付けられており、ここに弦を掛け、三ツガケは中指、四ツガケなら薬指を親指先に掛け、手首に適度な捻りを加える事により弦は保持される。
• Yugake has a shallow bump (tsurumakura, a part of a yugake glove to set a string) which is enough to set a string at the base of thumb, and they set a string this part and put the middle finger for mitsugake, or the annular finger for yotsugake on the tip of a thumb and add an appropriate twist to the wrist and then the string comes to be held.

• 浄真寺の九品仏の場合、阿弥陀如来の印相のうち、定印を「上生印」、説法印を「中生印」、来迎印を「下生印」とし、親指と人差し指（中指、薬指）を接するものをそれぞれ「上品」「中品」「下品」に充てる。
• In the case of the nine statues of Amida Nyorai enshrined in Joshin-ji Temple, the three types of inso assumed by Amida Nyorai, that is, Jo-in, Seppo-in and Raigo-in are assigned as 'Josho-in' (inso representing josho (upper birth)), 'Chusho-in' (inso representing chusho (middle birth)) and 'Gesho-in' (inso representing gesho (lower birth)), respectively, and combinations of the thumbs and the forefingers put together, those of the thumbs and the middle fingers put together and those of the thumbs and the annular fingers put together are assigned to 'jobon' (upper grade), 'chubon' (middle grade) and 'gebon' (lower grade), respectively.

• （洋弓は人指し指から薬指を使って弦を保持する『地中海式（図Fig.1）』を採る）蒙古式の取り掛けはトルコ・モンゴル・中国・朝鮮など短弓を使用する地域にも共通して見られ、また蒙古式を採る射法では多く矢を弓の右側に番える。
• (Yokyu (Western-style archery) adopts 'Mediterranean style (figure.1)' in which a string is held with the forefinger, mid finger and annular finger.) The Torikake of Menggu style is seen commonly in regions where Tankyu is used such as Turkey, Mongolia, China, and Korea, and in the Menggu style of shooting an arrow is often set on the right side of the bow.

• 技術的には、アーチェリーは矢を（身体から見て）弓の左に番え、弦は右手人差し指、中指、薬指で引く「地中海式」をとるのに対し、弓道は矢を弓の右に番え、取り掛けは右手親指根で弦を引っ掛けるようにして保持する「蒙古式（モンゴル式）」をとる（弓術諸外国弓術との比較）。
• Technically, archery uses the 'Mediterranean style,' in which the arrow is fixed on the left side of the bow (as viewed from the body) and the string is drawn with the index, middle and third fingers of the right hand, while Kyudo uses the 'Menggu (Mongol) style,' in which the arrow is fixed on the right side of the bow and torikake (gripping of the bowstring with the right hand) is maintained by hooking the string with the base of the right thumb (see the comparison with archery of foreign countries in Kyujutsu).

• 基本的には6つの音（左手の親指、人差し指、中指、薬指と右手の親指と人差し指を使用）から構成され、4度と5度音程を組み合わせた20世紀以降の西欧音楽に使用されるような複雑なものであるが、調律法が平均律ではないので協和音と不協和音というより、むしろ澄んだ音色に聞こえる。
• Basically, it is composed of six sounds (using the left thumb, index finger, middle finger, ring finger and the right thumb and index finger), which is complicated by the mixture of the fourth and fifth intervals used in Western music since the twentieth century, but it sounds clear as opposed to consonant or dissonant because the musical tuning is not equal temperament.