Senses
炊臼 to lose one's wife
To be deprived of one's wife; to be widowed. This literary expression comes from a story about a dream of cooking in a mortar (臼 ), which, because it lacked a pot, sounded like having no wife.
To be deprived of one's wife; to be widowed. This literary expression comes from a story about a dream of cooking in a mortar (臼 ), which, because it lacked a pot, sounded like having no wife.