Fireworks - Enka

Japanese: 煙火 - えんか

[noun] ① smoke and fire. [Nippo Jisho (1603-04)] ② smoke from cooking rice. Smoke from cooking. Smoke from people. Smoke from cooking. *Bunka Shureishu (818), part 2, Daiko Shonin San'in (Kinbe Hikonosuke) "We consulted and _poured _green tea. Fireworks lit the evening clouds." [Liezi - Yang Zhu] ③ beacons. Beacons . *Rites (718), Wei Jin " _{If necessary,} light _two small _beacons , _two more large beacons _{, and} if a _beacon is sent out within two li, light _two fireworks, _each for a year." [Han Shu - Emperor Wen's Chronicle] ④ fireworks. Season: Summer ※Essay: Kiyu Shoran (1830) vol. 10, part 2 "It seems that there have never been any big fireworks in Naniwa , Kyoto, since ancient times. Smoke originally came from beacons." [Zhu Xi - Letter to Zhongyu of the Tang Dynasty, No. 3]

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Japanese:

〘名〙① けむりと火。〔日葡辞書（1603‐04）〕② 飯をたくけむり。炊事のけむり。人煙。炊煙。※文華秀麗集（818）中・題光上人山院〈錦部彦公〉「相談酌_二緑茗_一。煙火暮雲間」〔列子‐楊朱〕③ のろし。烽火(ほうか)。※律（718）衛禁「若応_レ放_二少烽_一而放_二多烽_一及遶_レ烽二里内輙放_二煙火_一者、各徒一年」〔漢書‐文帝紀〕④ 花火。《季・夏》※随筆・嬉遊笑覧（1830）一〇下「京難波には昔(むかし)より大なる花火はなかりしとみゆ。烟花はもと烽燧より起る」〔朱熹‐按唐仲友第三状〕

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