Piggyback

Japanese: おんぶ
Piggyback
The custom of carrying babies on one's back is widely seen in Asian countries, Africa, the South Pacific islands, and American Indian tribes, but not in Europe or the United States. The way babies are carried on the mother's back varies by region and tribe. For example, some African tribes place the baby on the mother's bottom, while American Indians hang a carrier from the mother's forehead to her back and tie the baby to it facing backwards. In Japan, children carried on one's back can already be seen on pottery from the middle Jomon period, clay figurines of people from the Kofun period, and in the "Annual Events Picture Scroll" from the late Heian period.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
赤ん坊を背負う習慣は,広くアジア諸国,アフリカ,南太平洋諸島,アメリカ・インディアンの諸部族等に見られるが,欧米にはない。背負い方は,地域および部族によって異なる。例えば,アフリカのある部族は母親のしりに乗せ,アメリカ・インディアンは額から背に背負子(しよいこ)をつるし,これに赤ん坊を後向きにくくりつける。日本では,すでに縄文中期の土器,古墳時代の人物埴輪,平安後期の《年中行事絵巻》にも子どもを背負ったものが見られる。

出典 株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について 情報

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