たまや

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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
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, 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.)