Spoon - spoon

Japanese: お匙 - おさじ
Spoon - spoon

…In western Kyushu and other areas, a rice scoop is called iigai or meshigai. A medicine spoon is a spoon used by doctors to dispense medicine. In the Edo period, the doctors of feudal lords and other samurai were called saji, and when a doctor abandoned a seriously ill patient, the expression saji nuru came to mean that there was no way to save the patient. [Haruyama Yukio]…

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "spoon" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…九州西部などでは飯を盛る杓子を〈いいがい〉または〈めしがい〉と呼んでいる。なお,〈薬匙(やくじ∥やくさじ)〉は医師が薬を盛り分けるのに使ったさじで,江戸時代,大名などの侍医を〈お匙(さじ)〉と呼び,医師が重病患者を見放すことを,〈さじを投げる〉というようになり,俗に救済の方法がなくなったことを意味するようになった。【春山 行夫】。…

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