陸おか蒸じょう気き

noun

steam train (early Meiji period)

Obsolete colloquial term for a steam locomotive, used in the early Meiji era when railways were first introduced. Contrasted with 海蒸気 (sea steamship). Not used in modern Japanese.

• 明めい治じ初しょ期きには、陸おか蒸じょう気きが人ひと々びとを驚おどろかせたという。

  In the early Meiji period, steam trains are said to have amazed people.