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
  • (Tokyo) たま​や [tàmáꜜyà] (Nakadaka – [2])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ta̠ma̠ja̠]

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]

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: 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”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
  5. “玉屋”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
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