つぼね

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of つぼね – see the following entry.
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[noun] a temporary room created by subdividing a larger room with curtains and screens
[noun] a private room in a palace or noble residence created by subdividing a larger room or gallery with curtains and screens
[noun] a lady-in-waiting or gentlewoman who lives in such a room
[noun] (Edo) a lady-in-waiting to a shōgun or daimyō
[noun] the tenement room used by a 局(つぼね)女(じょ)郎(ろう) (tsubone-jorō, “a low grade prostitute who works out of a small tenement room and charges by the hour”)
[noun] short for 局女郎 (tsubone-jorō)
[suffix] an honorific appended to the names of high-ranking women
(This term, つぼね (tsubone), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as つぼね, see Category:Japanese kanji read as つぼね.
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