N2838/1725

灯とう台だい

obsolete kanjinounnoun (generic)

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とうだい

Meanings

lighthouse
old-fashioned interior light fixture comprising a wooden pole with an oil-filled dish and a wick atop it

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Example sentences

海岸かいがんに古ふるい灯台とうだいが立たっている。

An old lighthouse stands on the coast.

嵐あらしの夜よる、灯台とうだいの光ひかりが船ふねを安全あんぜんな港みなとへ導みちびいた。

On a stormy night, the light of the lighthouse guided the ship to a safe harbor.

この灯台とうだいは百年ひゃくねん以上いじょう前まえに建たてられたそうだ。

I heard this lighthouse was built more than a hundred years ago.

霧きりが濃こくて、灯台とうだいの光ひかりもほとんど見みえなかった。

The fog was so thick that I could barely see the lighthouse light.

江戸えど時代じだいの家屋かおくでは、灯台とうだいと呼よばれる油皿あぶらざらの照明しょうめい器具きぐが広ひろく用もちいられていたとされる。

It is said that in Edo-period homes, oil-dish lighting fixtures called tōdai were widely used.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)