田た作づくり

noun

candied dried sardines; gomame simmered in soy sauce and sugar

A traditional Japanese dish made from small dried sardines (gomame) cooked in a sweet soy sauce glaze until almost dry. Often served as part of osechi ryōri for New Year's, symbolizing a bountiful harvest. Also called ごまめ.

See also: ごまめ

• おせち料りょう理りには、田た作づくりが欠かかせません。

  Candied dried sardines are indispensable in osechi cuisine.

• 母ははが作つくる田た作づくりは、甘あま辛からくてとても美味おいしい。

  The candied dried sardines my mother makes are sweet and salty and very delicious.

noun

tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field

Rare, literal meaning referring to the act of cultivating a rice paddy or the person who does it. In modern Japanese, this sense is almost never used independently; the word is overwhelmingly known as the food sense.

• 「田た作づくり」という言こと葉ばは、本ほん来らいは田たを耕たがやすことを意い味みした。

  The word '田作り' originally meant tilling a rice field.