hyoshigi

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noun

One of the wooden sticks that are clapped by the yobidashi to draw the spectator's attention.

OriginJapanese 拍子木 →
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Meanings

nounhyoshigi (plural hyoshigi)
  1. governmentOne of the wooden sticks that are clapped by the yobidashi to draw the spectator's attention.

    I put the glasses down and found that my heart was beating fast, thumping with an accelerating sound like that of the hyoshigi which I had last heard in that sombre vaporous gallery in the Wallace Collection.

    1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea, Vintage, published 1999, page 247

Origin

  1. Japanese拍子木
  2. Japanese拍子木
  3. Englishhyoshigi

Borrowed from Japanese 拍子木.

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Chicago

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