たまや

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of たまや – see the following entries.

【玉屋】 [noun] a store or person selling beads [noun] a store or person selling bubbles [proper noun] (historical) a popular manufacturer of fireworks in the first half of the 1800s (alluding to sellers of soap bubbles for the brief beauty of the fireworks) [proper noun] (historical) during the Edo period, a red-light district in the north of modern-day Asakusa [proper noun] (historical) a kabuki work including a dance about a seller of bubbles, first performed in 1832 [interjection] exclamation when watching fireworks

【霊屋】 [noun] (Shinto) a shrine dedicated to a specific individual [noun] (Shinto) a place where the remains of the dead are kept temporarily during a period of mourning, prior to burial at a formal funeral [noun] (Shinto) a roof placed over a grave, sometimes built to shelter offerings, incense, and the like from the elements

(This term, たまや (tamaya), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as たまや, see Category:Japanese kanji read as たまや.)