Japanese

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Kanji in this term
とん
Grade: S
じき
Grade: 2
on'yomi

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [tõ̞ɲ̟d͡ʑikʲi]

Noun

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(とん)(じき) (tonjiki

  1. food and drink served at a noble's banquet; in particular, rice balls
    • 1008-1010: Murasaki Shikibu Nikki
      五日夜は、殿の御産養。十五日の月くもりなくおもしろきに、池のみぎは近う、かがり火どもを木のしたにともしつつ、とじきども立てわたす。あやしきしづのをのさへづりありくけしきどもまで、いろふしにたちがほなり。
      The fifth night celebration was the one put on by His Lordship. The full moon being without cloud, in its splendidness, near the right side of the pond, they widely set out glutinous rice balls while lighting braziers under the trees. Up to where the shabbily-clad lower-class men went about chatting, were stood about faces at the place they coloured.
  2. a tray used to carry such food and drink

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References

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  • Ikeda, Kikan with Shinji Kishigami, Ken Akiyama (1958) Koten Bungaku Taikei 19: Makura no Sōshi, Murasaki Shikibu Nikki, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN