bag

On-Yomi: ヒョウ — Kun-Yomi: たわら

Koohii stories:

1) [volfy] 17-4-2006(176): Mr. T's punching bag has one beat up surface.

2) [gorgon] 28-2-2006(57): Do you know why every person in Japan has a Louis Vuitton bag? After the 1985 JAL air crash that killed 520 people (the world's worst). An image on tv of the crash showed Louis Vuitton bags (whose LV logo covered surface was somehow impervious) litering the crash site. From that point on they stuck in Japanese people's mind's as durable and high quality. (True story).

3) [samuize] 27-5-2008(43): Superficial people (ie those who are only concerned about the surface) are obsessed with expensive bags.

4) [mantixen] 26-9-2008(19): Haruhi is imprinted on the surface of my bag.

5) [DavidZ] 12-11-2009(17): TIP: Not a bag, this is a straw container that looks like a straw bale. Also used to mark the edge of the sumo ring… STORY: When Mr T tried sumo wrestling he got knocked right to the surface of the dohyo and ended up staring at the tawara… 俵 [たわら] 、土俵 [どひょう].