2 I continue hereafter to use the Japanese word kuruma instead of the Chinese word Jin-ri-ki-sha. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
From kuruma naturally comes kurumaya for the kuruma runner. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
Some one outside called that the bride's kuruma was at the gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Also had a Kerala parota with vegetable kuruma yes, spelt that way. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
Maheshwari of Beyond the Usual - Aappam with Mutton kuruma and Thengai pal. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
At first he always used fellows for men, as, “Will you have one or two FELLOWS for your kuruma?”. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
In a few minutes three Ainos ran out of a house, took the kuruma, and went the whole stage without stopping. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
They had never drawn a kuruma, and were as pleased as children when I showed them how to balance the shafts. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
When I write of a road I mean a bridle-path from four to eight feet wide, kuruma roads being specified as such. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
I call it the kuruma because it is the only one, and is kept by the Government for the conveyance of hospital patients. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
They dexterously carried the kuruma through, on the shoulders of four, and showed extreme anxiety that neither it nor I should get wet. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
She scolded the kuruma men in her shrill voice, giving a dozen instructions in one sentence, and pretending anger at their answering jests. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Before he left he wrote a letter for me to the Governor of Mororan, thanking him on my behalf for the use of the kuruma and other courtesies. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
She continued to watch furtively, in a sort of terror, the tall figure as it was assisted from the kuruma and led, shambling, through the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
All my luggage, with the exception of my saddle, which I use for a footstool, goes into one kuruma, and Ito, who is limited to 12 lbs., takes his along with him. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
It was a miserable day, with fog concealing the mountains and lying heavily on the sea, but as no one expected rain I sent the kuruma back to Mororan and secured horses. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
He spoke of cremation and its “necessity” in large cities, and terminated the interview by requesting me to dismiss my interpreter and kuruma, as he was going to send me to. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
It was a terrible road, with two severe mountain-passes to cross, and I not only had to walk nearly the whole way, but to help the man with the kuruma up some of the steepest places. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
The Governor sent his card early, to know if there were anything I should like to see or do, but, as the morning was grey and threatening, I wished to push on, and at 9.30 I was in the kuruma at the inn door. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
It began for me with my first kuruma-ride out of the European quarter of. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Taking the shortest route, one goes first to Mitsu-ura from Matsue, either by kuruma or on foot. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
One day, as I was driving down from the Bluff, I saw an empty kuruma coming up on the wrong side of the curve. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
At the rate I was going, there wasn't room even to swerve; and the next minute one of the shafts of that kuruma was in my horse's shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
A journey of four days by kuruma, with strong runners, from the Pacific to the Sea of Japan; for we have taken the longest and least frequented route. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
By kuruma this little journey occupies nearly two hours and a half, though the distance is scarcely seven miles, the road being one of the worst in all Izumo. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
But to go there one must follow tortuous paths too rough and steep for a kuruma; and of three ways, the longest and roughest happens to be the most interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
The records give no description of it, but they say that Yuryaku and his Empress returned from a hunting expedition on a cart (kuruma), and tradition relates that a man named. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
I only yelled to the man in Japanese to get to the other side of the road; instead of which he simply backed his kuruma against a wall on the lower side of the curve, with the shafts outwards. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
The kuruma road, however, continues good to the Ku-wana, ten miles farther, whence, to Miya, one has to traverse narrower paths through a flat section of rice-fields, dikes, canals, and sloughs. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
Beyond the fourth rice-valley there is a fourth hill-chain, lower and richly wooded, on reaching the base of which the traveller must finally abandon his kuruma, and proceed over the hills on foot. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
A baby-carriage, known to foreigners as the jinrickisha, and to the natives as the kuruma. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
“I never thought that when you’d got the Kaitakushi kuruma you’d go off the road into those woods!”. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
Ito’s attendance, I took a kuruma for the day, and had a very pleasant excursion into a cul de sac in the mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
(so picturesque that I wish I could pass a day in it), as our kuruma rush through the little town into the open country, into a vast plain covered with rice-fields. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Ingwa wa, kuruma no wa. From Wordnik.com. [In Ghostly Japan] Reference
This doesn’t gel with the ‘kuruma banare’ trend. From Wordnik.com. [Over three-quarters feel cameras necessary on phones] Reference
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