再生 saisei Rebirth

The word's earliest dated witness is a Buddhist treatise Kumārajīva translated between 406 and 412, which calls a tooth that grows back 再生 and then corrects itself, since the old tooth does not grow again; the boy Katsugorō's remembered former life, set down in Japan in 1823 as his 再生, reached English in Lafcadio Hearn's The Rebirth of Katsugorō of 1897.

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