刈り根

Japanese
Kanji in this term
刈 根
か
Grade: S		 ね
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Alternative forms
  • 刈根

Etymology

From 刈り (kari, stem form of 刈る (karu), "to cut, mow") +‎ 根 (ne, “root”).

Pronunciation

Noun

刈り根 (hiragana かりね, rōmaji karine)

  1. (agriculture) stubble left from cut grass or other plant
    • 1188, Senzai Wakashū (book 13, poem 806; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 88)
      難 (なに)波 (は)江 (え)の葦 (あし)のかりねの一 (ひと)夜 (よ)故 (ゆゑ)みをつくしてや恋 (こひ)わたるべき
      Naniwa-e no ashi no karine no hitoyo yue mi o tsukushite ya koi wataru beki
      For the sake of a night short as the nodes of the reeds of Naniwa[,] must I live on, my flesh wasted with longing?[2]

Usage notes

Used as a wordplay for 仮寝 (karine, “sleeping away from home”).

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. Kenneth Rexroth (1964) One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, illustrated edition, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 74
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