hyoshigi
See also: hyōshigi
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese 拍子木.
Noun
hyoshigi (plural hyoshigi)
- (sumo) One of the wooden sticks that are clapped by the yobidashi to draw the spectator's attention.
- 1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea, Vintage 1999, p. 247:
- I put the glasses down and found that my heart was beating fast, thumping with an accelerating sound like that of the hyoshigi which I had last heard in that sombre vaporous gallery in the Wallace Collection.
- 1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea, Vintage 1999, p. 247: