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金蔵 (kanegura) Japanese meaning: treasure house | Kotomora

金かね蔵ぐら

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Meanings

1

treasure house; treasury

A storehouse or vault for money and valuables; can be literal or figurative.

この博はく物ぶつ館かんは古こ代だいの金かね蔵ぐらのようなものだ

。

This museum is like an ancient treasure house.

2

financial supporter; patron; backer

Only with reading かねぐら

Refers to a person or organization that provides funds; reading is restricted to かねぐら.

彼かれは地じ元もとの祭まつりの金かね蔵ぐらとして知しられている。
He is known as the financial backer of the local festival.

Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉を金かね蔵ぐらにするto treat someone as a source of money to draw on
彼かれは妻つまを金かね蔵ぐらにして遊あそび回まわっている。
He treats his wife as his personal moneybag and lives it up.
金かね蔵ぐらが尽つきるfor a treasury or funding source to run dry
戦せんが長なが引びき、藩はんの金かね蔵ぐらが尽つきてしまった。
As the war dragged on, the domain's treasury ran completely dry.

Kanji

金gold
蔵storehouse, hide, own
帑money repository

Related words

金きん庫こN3sense 1
金庫 is a small safe or strongbox for storing money, while 金蔵 is a larger storehouse or treasury, often historical or figurative.
スポンサー sense 2
スポンサー is the modern loanword for a financial sponsor, while 金蔵 is an older, more colorful Japanese term for someone who bankrolls another person.
宝ほう庫こ sense 1
宝庫 means a treasure house or rich source (often used figuratively, like a 'treasure trove'), while 金蔵 specifically implies a store of money or funds.
パトロン sense 2
パトロン is a patron who provides ongoing financial support, often with personal ties, while 金蔵 focuses simply on the person being a source of money.
後こう援えん者しゃ sense 2
後援者 is a neutral, formal word for a supporter or backer, while 金蔵 has a more colloquial, sometimes slightly cynical tone of being used as a money source.

Built from

金かね+倉くら

Written forms

金蔵Usage100%
- かねぐら
  Standard kanji spelling for the reading かねぐら.
- きんぞう
  out-dated reading
帑かねぐら

Etymology

Compound of 金 (かね, 'money') and 蔵 (くら, 'storehouse'). The reading きんぞう is obsolete.

rarely-used kanji form

Rarely used kanji form.

きんぞう

out-dated reading