金きん鍔つば

noun

kin-tsuba (sweet); bean-jam cake shaped like a sword guard

Abbreviation of 金鍔焼き. A traditional Japanese confection: sweetened bean paste wrapped in a thin wheat-flour dough and grilled, named for its resemblance to a sword guard.

See also: 金鍔焼き

• 老舗しにせの和わ菓が子し屋やで金きん鍔つばを買かった。

  I bought kin-tsuba at a long-established Japanese confectionery shop.

• 金きん鍔つばはあんこがぎっしり詰つまっていて食たべ応ごたえがある。

  Kin-tsuba is packed with sweet bean paste and is quite filling.

noun

metal sword guard; polearm

Archaic. Originally referred to the metal guard (tsuba) of a Japanese sword, and by extension a polearm. In modern Japanese, the confection sense is overwhelmingly more common.

• 刀かたなの金きん鍔つばには家か紋もんが彫ほられていた。

  The family crest was carved on the metal sword guard.

• 古こ文もん書じょには金きん鍔つばを携たずさえた武ぶ士しの記き述じゅつがある。

  Old documents describe warriors carrying polearms.