女冠者

女(め)冠(か)者(じゃ) • (mekaja) ^{←めくわじや (mekwazya)?}

1. (dialectal, Northwestern Kyūshū) a lamp shell, lingulate brachiopod (Lingulidae)
   • 1689, Ihara Saikaku, 一目玉鉾 [Hitotsume Tamaboko]:

     ○柳(○ やな)<ruby>川<rp>(</rp><rt>がは</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>の城(じやう)主(しゆ)　<ruby>立<rp>(</rp><rt>たち</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby><ruby>花<rp>(</rp><rt>ばな</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby><ruby>飛<rp>(</rp><rt>ひ</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby><ruby>騨<rp>(</rp><rt>だ</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby><ruby>守<rp>(</rp><rt>のかみ</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>殿(どの)
     　此所(ここ)の名(めい)物(ぶつ)　海(うみ)竹(たけ)　女(め)冠(くわ)者(じや)　あげまき　是(これ)礒(いそ)貝(がひ)也(なり)

     • Yanagawa no jōshu Tachibana Hida-no-kami-dono
     　Koko no meibutsu umitake mekaja agemaki kore isogai nari

     • Lord of Yanagawa: Tachibana Hida-no-kami-dono (Tachibana Akitora)
     　Specialties here: umitake (bamboo coral), mekaja (lamp shell), agemaki (Sinonovacula constricta) that is a shell of the rocky shore

• <ruby>三<rp>(</rp><rt>しゃ</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby><ruby>味<rp>(</rp><rt>み</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby><ruby>線<rp>(</rp><rt>せん</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby><ruby>貝<rp>(</rp><rt>がい</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby> (shamisengai)