堪忍袋|かんにんぶくろkanninbukuro[5]nakadaka (mid-high)

1. nounone's store of patience

• Related忍耐にんたいWrittenWritten/formal word for enduring pain and hardship; plainer and more direct than the metaphorical 「堪忍袋」.
• Related堪忍かんにんNeutralForbearance and forgiveness: holding back anger and pardoning others. Works as noun and verb, and is what the 「堪忍袋」 is imagined to hold.
• Related隠忍いんにんWrittenWritten/formal term for enduring in silence, without letting your feelings show.
• Relatedこらえ性こらえしょうCasualColloquial word for one's capacity to endure — the temperament that sees hardship through to the end.

「堪忍袋」 is a bag metaphor for one's limit of patience, used almost only as 「堪忍袋の緒が切れる」 to mean one can take no more. For endurance say 「忍耐」 or 「我慢」; for forgiving someone, use 「堪忍」.

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1. 我慢がまんできる（堪忍かんにんできる）量りょう（心こころの広ひろさ）を袋ふくろに例たとえた言葉ことば。（成句せいく：堪忍袋かんにんぶくろの緒いとぐちが切きれる）
2. 古典こてん落語らくごにおける演目えんもくの1つ。歌舞伎かぶき・浄瑠璃じょうるりの外題げだい。益田ますだ太郎たろう冠者かじゃによる。