イシモチ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of イシモチ – see the following entry.

[noun] 石持ち, 石首魚, 石頭魚: synonym of 白口 (shiroguchi, “silver croaker”)

[noun] synonym of 杜父魚 (kajika, “sculpin; Japanese fluvial sculpin”)

[noun] (architecture) a crosspiece supporting a stone roof

[noun] (textiles) short for 石持小紋 (ishimochi komon), a pattern used in stencil dying textiles that resembles a pile of small stones

[proper noun] a surname

[proper noun] an unknown-gender given name

(This term, イシモチ (ishimochi), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)