短冊

たんざく
small vertical card for poem

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たんざく【短冊】

oblong card 〖C〗.

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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].