The person into whom a gaki enters at first feels intensely cold and shivers, because the gakiis cold.
But in Japanese Buddhism, the name Gaki is given also to those souls who have none among the living to remember them, and to prepare for them the customary offerings of food and tea.
But at exactly the same hour upon another day the gaki will return, and the victim must shiver and burn until the haunter has become warm and has satisfied its hunger.
But the chill is followed by a feeling of intense heat, as the gaki becomes warm.
Some gakivisit their patients every day; others every alternate day, or even less often.
Having warmed itself and absorbed some nourishment at the expense of its unwilling host, the gaki goes away, and the fever ceases for a time.
The Gaki said I'd waken--I'd be as free as one in life.
The gaki are the famished ghosts of that Circle of Torment in hell whereof the penance is hunger; and the mouths of some are 'smaller than the points of needles.
UTA-GAKI A favourite pastime during the early historic period was known as uta-gaki or uta-kai.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gaki" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
