ryokan
/rɪˈəʊkan
/noun
A traditional Japanese inn.I tried to book our ryokan today, and the woman couldn't understand a word I said, and was a tad rude, and I had to hand the phone over to Tamura....
- Upstairs is reminiscent of a Japanese ryokan, or guesthouse, and the former banquet room still contains the stage where Japanese officers were once entertained.
- Mr. Kawabata wrote the novel while staying in a small ryokan in Yuzawa Town, Niigata Prefecture (which now proudly refers to itself as ‘snow country’), in 1947.
Origin
Japanese.
Rhymes
- Wilkes-Barre
- Wilkes, Charles
- Wilkes Land
- Wilkie, Sir David
- Wilkins, Maurice
- Wilkins, Roy
- will
- Willamette River
- Willard, Emma
- Willard, Frances
- will-call
- will do
- willed
- willemite
- Willemstad
- willet
- willful
- willfully
- Will, George F.
- will have (or want) none of something
- William
- William I
- William Morris
- William of Occam
- William of Orange