- 短冊
- たんざく
small vertical card for poem* * *たんざく【短冊】oblong card 〖C〗.* * *たんざく【短冊】a strip of (fancy) paper (for writing a tanka or a haiku on).●和歌の書いてある短冊 a tanzaku bearing a tanka [with a tanka written on it].
●短冊(形)に切る 〔ニンジンなどを〕 cut [slice] into thin rectangles [rectangular slabs].
●七夕祭りの笹に短冊を飾る hang up colored strips of paper (with prayers written on them) on sticks of bamboo for the Tanabata festival.
短冊掛け a frame for (displaying) tanzaku.短冊切り 〔ニンジンなどの〕 cutting [slicing] into thin rectangles [rectangular slabs].
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.