蔵 storehouse

Meaning	storehouse; hide; own; have
On	ゾウ、ソウ
Kun	くら、おさ.める、かく.れる
Strokes	15
First met	N4 lesson 34, in 蔵

Stroke order

Words

Word	Reading	Meaning	Level
蔵	くら	cellar, storehouse	N4
収蔵	しゅうぞう	storing, collection (of a museum or archive)	N3
蔵囲い	くらがこい	cellar-aged kelp curing	N1
蔵付き菌	くらつききん	indigenous micro-flora of the storehouse	N1
地下蔵	ちかぐら	subterranean cellar, earthen vault	N1
蔵守	くらもり	cellar steward, vault keeper	N1
蔵癖	くらぐせ	unique microbial habit of an individual cellar	N1
蔵出し	くらだし	taking products out of cellar storage	N1
蔵付き酵母	くらつきこうぼ	indigenous ambient cellar yeasts	N1
貯蔵熟成	ちょぞうじゅくせい	maturation and mellowing in glass carboys	N1
蔵開き	くらびらき	ceremonial uncasking and opening of cellar doors	N1
秘蔵	ひぞう	treasured private possession, closely kept jewel	N1
蔵人の祈り	くらびとのいのり	generational prayers of cellar fermentation workers	N1
蔵の静寂	くらのせいじゃく	profound, sacred stillness inside the storehouse	N1

Examples

この「蔵(くら)囲(がこ)い」の技法(ぎほう)は、単(たん)なる乾物(かんぶつ)の保管(ほかん)ではない。蔵(くら)の湿度(しつど)と温度(おんど)を微細(びさい)に調節(ちょうせつ)しながら、余分(よぶん)な磯臭(いそくさ)さを飛(と)ばし、純粋(じゅんすい)な旨味(うまみ)成分(せいぶん)であるグルタミン酸(さん)を内部(ないぶ)で濃縮(のうしゅく)・安定(あんてい)化(か)させる伝統(でんとう)の知恵(ちえ)なのだ。

This technique of cellar-aging is not simply storing a dried food. It is traditional wisdom: adjusting the storehouse's humidity and temperature minutely, driving off the excess smell of the shore, and concentrating and stabilizing inside the kelp the pure umami compound, glutamic acid. (N1 lesson 154)