玉屋
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 玉 | 屋 |
| たま Grade: 1 |
や Grade: 3 |
| kun’yomi | |
Etymology[edit]
Compound of 玉 (tama, “bead”, also short for シャボン玉 (shabon-dama, “soap bubble”)) + 屋 (ya, “store, shop; shopkeeper, seller”).[1][2][3] First appears in the 1500s.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- (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)
- (historical) during the Edo period, a red-light district in the north of modern-day Asakusa
- (historical) a kabuki work including a dance about a seller of bubbles, first performed in 1832[4][5]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ “玉屋”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
- ^ “玉屋”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
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