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kitchen stove

On-Yomi: ソウ

Koohii stories:

1) [ikmys] 12-7-2007(42): The original Japanese kitchen stoves were powered by electric eels (hey, Edison never made it to the far east!), so a small hole had to be placed in the dirt under the stove (for the eels to swim around in).

2) [cameron_en] 25-11-2008(7): We finally found the tortoise that escaped (straw rope (#1377 縄)), it has somehow crawled into a hole just above the kitchen stove and had become quite dirty.

3) [mcfate] 23-10-2007(3): I'm going to make some turtle soup, so I take an unbound tortoise (#534 亀) out of a hole in the soil, to place on the kitchen stove.

4) [mantixen] 15-2-2007(1): A kitchen stove used to be a hole in the soil into which you put eels for dinner.

5) [astridtops] 13-4-2007(): To prepare my delicious eels, I first have to dig a hole in the soil to make sure my kitchen stove is steady.

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