すなご

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of すなご – see the following entry.
砂子
[noun] [from late 800s] synonym of (suna, sand)
[noun] [from 1584] an object which can be used to spray gold and silver powder onto objects such as lacquer, fusuma paper, coloured paper, or tanzaku
(This term, すなご (sunago), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)