玉屋

Japanese

Kanji in this term
玉 屋
たま
Grade: 1 		や
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Etymology

Compound of 玉 (tama, “bead”, also short for シャボン玉 (shabon-dama, “soap bubble”)) +‎ 屋 (ya, “store, shop; shopkeeper, seller”).[1][2][3] First appears in the 1500s.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

玉(たま)屋(や) • (tamaya) 

  1. a store or person selling beads
  2. a store or person selling bubbles

Proper noun

玉(たま)屋(や) • (Tamaya) 

  1. (historical) a popular manufacturer of fireworks in the first half of the 1800s (alluding to sellers of soap bubbles for the brief beauty of the fireworks)
  2. (historical) during the Edo period, a red-light district in the north of modern-day Asakusa
  3. (historical) a kabuki work including a dance about a seller of bubbles, first performed in 1832[4][5]

Interjection

玉(たま)屋(や) • (tamaya) 

  1. exclamation when watching fireworks
    Alternative forms: たーまや, たまやー, たーまやー
    Coordinate term: 鍵屋

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  4. ^ “玉屋”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)‎[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
  5. ^ “玉屋”, in 改訂新版 世界大百科事典 (Kaitei Shinpan Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Revised Edition”)‎[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 2007, →ISBN
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