ウバステヤマ – Vocabulary details

ウバステヤマ

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

Meiji, Taisho period slang

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バステヤマ

elderly woman; noh mask of an old woman

discard pile (card games)

practice of abandoning old people, usu. women

mountain; hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap; pile; crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw)

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