オバステヤマ – Vocabulary details

オバステヤマ

Noun

1. mountain where old people were abandoned (according to legend)

2. position or division in a company to which an old and ineffective person is transferred

3. women's college

used in the Meiji and Taisho periods

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バステヤマ

practice of abandoning old people, usu. women

mountain; hill; mine; (mountain) forest; heap; pile; protruding or high part of an object

discard pile

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