also: こんや
noun
dyer; dye house
Refers to a person or business that dyes cloth. Often appears in the proverb 紺屋の白袴 (the dyer's white hakama), meaning one is so busy with others' work that one neglects one's own affairs.
祖父は紺屋を営んでいた。
My grandfather ran a dyeing business.
紺屋の白袴とはよく言ったものだ。
It's just like the saying 'the dyer's white hakama'—too busy with others' work to take care of one's own.