女冠者

Japanese

Kanji in this term
女	冠	者
め Grade: 1	かん > か Grade: S	しゃ > じゃ Grade: 3
kun’yomi	on’yomi

Alternative spelling
女冠者 (kyūjitai)

Noun

女(め)冠(か)者(じゃ) • (mekaja) ^{←めくわじや (mekwazya)?}

1. (dialectal, Northwestern Kyūshū) a lamp shell, lingulate brachiopod (Lingulidae)
   • 1689, Ihara Saikaku, 一目玉鉾 [Hitotsume Tamaboko]:

     ○柳(○ やな)川(がは)の城(じやう)主(しゆ)　立(たち)花(ばな)飛(ひ)騨(だ)守(のかみ)殿(どの)
     　此所(ここ)の名(めい)物(ぶつ)　海(うみ)竹(たけ)　女(め)冠(くわ)者(じや)　あげまき　是(これ)礒(いそ)貝(がひ)也(なり)

     • Yanagawa no jōshu Tachibana Hida-no-kami-dono
     　Koko no meibutsu umitake mekaja agemaki kore isogai nari

     • Lord of Yanagawa: Tachibana Hida-no-kami-dono (Tachibana Akitora)
     　Specialties here: umitake (bamboo coral), mekaja (lamp shell), agemaki (Sinonovacula constricta) that is a shell of the rocky shore

Synonyms

• 三(しゃ)味(み)線(せん)貝(がい) (shamisengai)