金かね蔵ぐら

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JLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 100,000

Meanings

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

Only with reading かねぐら

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

〈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.

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.

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
rarely-used kanji form
Rarely used kanji form.
きんぞう
out-dated reading

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 The reading きんぞう is obsolete.