蔵

くら · kura · JLPT N1 · noun

cellar

蔵 — cellar

🍶 kura sounds like cooler-a: a cool dark room where you store things

Sake breweries call their aging storehouses kura, so think of a cellar where sake matures in barrels. The same word covers any cool, hidden storage room.

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