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Japanese
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- a temporary room created by subdividing a larger room with curtains and screens
- a private room in a palace or noble residence created by subdividing a larger room or gallery with curtains and screens
- a lady-in-waiting or gentlewoman who lives in such a room
- an honorific appended to the names of high ranking women
- (Edo) a lady-in-waiting to a shōgun or daimyō
- the tenement room used by a 局女郎 (tsubone-jorō)
- Short for 局女郎 (tsubone-jorō, “a low grade prostitute who works out of a small tenement room and charges by the hour”).
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(This term, つぼね (tsubone), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as つぼね, see Category:Japanese kanji read as つぼね.)
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