Why is 箕 transcribed as みの in this sentence while according to the dictionary (with the meaning of winnow; winnowing basket; winnowing fan) it is read as み?
次の日、まだ夜が明けぬ暗い朝、女の子は起きると箕（みの）と箕かさを身にまとい出かけました。
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Usually, 箕【み】 refers a winnowing basket made of bamboo. 蓑【みの】/簑【みの】 refers to a straw raincoat. In this context, this みの obviously refers to the latter.
But I'm not sure if it's an outright typo. As proper nouns, a person called 箕谷【みのや】 and a station called 箕谷【みのたに】駅 exist. So in the old days when kanji usages were not standardized, 箕 might have been also used to refer to a raincoat.
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I used to work in 箕面市 so I got interested and looked it up once. I don't remember where. But I did find みの as a reading of 箕 by itself. Ah, yeah: ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%AE%95 has this. Jun 29, 2017 at 12:55