一房

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 一房 is a quantity expression read ひとふさ, counting one bunch or cluster of fruit or flowers.
• Basic usage: Use ぶどうを一房買う for one bunch of grapes and 花を一房切る for cutting one cluster of flowers.
  • 市場でぶどうを一房買った。 describes buying a bunch of grapes at the market; 庭の藤から花を一房だけ切った。 describes cutting just one cluster of flowers from the garden wisteria.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• ぶどうを一房買う
  • 一房 counts the whole connected bunch, not one individual grape.
• 藤から切る
  • から marks the wisteria as the source from which the flowers are cut.
• 一房だけ
  • だけ limits the amount cut to a single cluster.