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)

a store or person selling beads
a store or person selling bubbles

Proper noun

玉(たま)屋(や) • (Tamaya)

(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)
(historical) during the Edo period, a red-light district in the north of modern-day Asakusa
(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)

exclamation when watching fireworks
Coordinate term: 鍵屋

Alternative forms: たーまや, たまやー, たーまやー

References

↑ ^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
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ “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
^ “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

[KDJ-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

[DJR-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[DJS-3] Matsumura, Akira (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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