Tonbo

Tonbo is the Japanese word for dragonfly. Dragonflies are kind of cool.

• The potter's dragonfly-shaped tool that measures both diameter and depth is called a tonbo.
  • It is used to produce items of the same size when Throwing off the Hump
• Tonbogaeri (lit. dragonfly reverse) refers to how dragonflies can turn around in place
  • The Pokemon move Tonbogaeri is localized as U-Turn (which is why the move is bug-type)
  • Trains reversing out of a terminal are said to tonbogaeri
  • Ninja somersaulting is called tonbogaeri

Created 2024-05-19.

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