反故籠ほぐかご

noun

wastebasket; wastepaper basket

Archaic term for a basket used to collect wastepaper, especially in historical or literary settings. Not used in modern Japanese; the common modern word is くずかご.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの商しょう家かでは、反ほ故ぐ籠かごに書かき損そんじの紙かみを入いれていた。

  In merchant houses of the Edo period, they put spoiled writing paper into the wastepaper basket.