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- Japanese · borrowed from徳俵“special rice bale”
- English todaytoku-dawara
Borrowed from Japanese 徳俵 (tokudawara, “special rice bale”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
toku-dawara
Today it means: Small enlargements at the cardinal points of the dohyo; originally the entry and exit points. Full definition →
Japanese 徳俵