おいえ – Vocabulary details

おいえ

Noun

Honorific

1. noble family; lord's family; master's family; another person's family

2. large organization; large company

used ironically

3. head family (of a school of traditional performing arts)

4. parlour; living room

お

いえ

honorific/polite/humble prefix

house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name

family trouble (quarrel); domestic squabble; internal squabble (over headship rights) in a daimyo family in the Edo period

Oie school of calligraphy (based on the gyōsho style; popular in the Edo period); Sonen school; Shorenin school

one's specialty; one's forte; specialty of a kabuki school

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