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算盤 (そろばん, soroban) is a JLPT N2 vocabulary word meaning “abacus”.
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Example sentences 11
彼女はそろばんが 得意です
She is good at the abacus.
算盤とは 日本のアバカスのことだ。
A "soroban" is a type of Japanese abacus.
大津絵、大津算盤などが名物となる。
Otsu paintings and Otsu abacus became its local specialities.
天元術では、算盤（さんばん）と呼ばれる表と算木を用いた。
In Tengen-jutsu, a combination of a chart and sangi called sanban was used.
且元は夜遅く一人算盤を手に軍用資金の遣り繰りに苦しんでいる。
Late at night, Katsumoto is alone having a hard time trying to figure out how to manage war funds with an abacus in his hands.『
論語と算盤』を著し、「道徳経済合一説」という理念を打ち出した。
He wrote "Rongo (Analects of Confucius) and Soroban (abacus)" and developed 'a philosophy of the union of morality and economy.'
人形１の尻に算盤２を設けて、算盤２の珠を取り付ける所に、脱臭乾燥した兎の糞３を複数設ける。
An abacus 2 is installed at the hip of a doll 1 and plural deodorized and dried droppings 3 of a rabbit are arranged in places where the beads of the abacus 2 are fitted.
算盤坊主（そろばんぼうず）または算盤小僧（そろばんこぞう）は、丹波国（京都府）に伝わる妖怪。
Soroban Bozu or Soroban Kozo is a ghost whose stories are told in Tanba Province (Kyoto Prefecture).
寺子屋や藩校の普及により読み書き算盤が広く浸透し、幕府奨励の儒学のほかに本草学などの自然科学が育った。
Due to the spread of Terakoya (Temple elementary schools during the Edo period) and Hanko (a domain school), reading, writing and arithmetic penetrated widely, and in addition to Confucianism recommended by the bakufu, natural science including herbalism developed.
また、この西光寺の隣の素盞嗚神社でも、毎晩午前0時か1時頃、境内の木の下に少年の姿が現れて算盤を弾き出すという。
It is also said that a young boy appears under a tree in the grounds of Susano-jinja Shrine next to the Seiko-ji Temple between midnight and one in the morning and practices an abacus.
前田家の決済はすべて利家自身で行ったため、愛用の算盤が前田家家宝として残っている（算盤は当時に日本に伝わったばかりであり、それを使えるというだけで稀有な事であった）。
As Toshiie carried out all the settlement of the Maeda family in person, his favorite soroban (abacus) has been handed down as a treasure of the Maeda family (a soroban had just been introduced to Japan at that time, so it was uncommon enough to be able to use it.)