俵

Meaning

俵 centers on a container made for bundling and carrying bulk goods: a bag, sack, or bale, especially the traditional straw rice bag. The counter sense is a natural extension of counting such bags.

• 土俵どひょう
  N1

  (wrestling) ring

• 俵たわら

  straw bag; sack; bale

• 土俵入りどひょういり

  entrance procession of wrestlers into the ring

• 土俵際どひょうぎわ

  edge of the ring

• 一俵いっぴょう

  one (straw) bagful

• 上げ俵あげだわら

  4 corner bales on the outer rim of the sumo ring

• 俵数ひょうすう

  number of straw bags

• 俵物たわらもの

  goods in straw bags

• 俵編たわらあみ

  making bags out of this year's straw (during autumn)

• 俵茱萸たわらぐみ

  Elaeagnus multiflora var. hortensis (variety of goumi)

• 俵責めたわらぜめ

  Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

• 俵雪たわらゆき

  snow roller (wind-blown roll of snow)

• 内俵うちだわら

  bales forming the edge of the ring

• 初土俵はつどひょう

  first tournament for a wrestler

• 勝負俵しょうぶだわら

  bales forming the edge of the ring

• 土俵人生どひょうじんせい

  wrestler's active career

• 土俵廻しどひょうまわし

  wrestler's belt used in a bout

• 土俵溜まりどひょうだまり

  waiting place for a wrestler beside the ring

• 土俵祭りどひょうまつり

  ceremony to purify the ring before the start of a tournament

• 土俵開きどひょうびらき

  opening ceremony for the new ring in a stable

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