Squid

Japanese: いかき
Squid

...Because water leaks out of the basket, it is said that "water in a basket" is an analogy for wastefulness, and "zaru go" is a poor game of go. The 10th century Wamyōshō uses the character souri and reads it as mugisukui, referring to a basket for boiling wheat ropes, while the 15th century Gegakushū reads souri as ikaki and refers to a miso strainer. Even today, it is called ikaki in Kyoto and Osaka and zaru in Tokyo, but it is said that the origin of the word ikaki comes from yukake (a boiled water poured over a bowl of water) and zaru comes from souri....

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "ikaki" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…水が漏れるところから,むだの多いことのたとえに〈ざるに水〉,へたな碁を〈ざる碁〉などという。10世紀の《和名抄》は笊籬(そうり)の字をあてて〈むぎすくい〉と読み,麦索(むぎなわ)を煮る籠としているが,15世紀の《下学集》は笊籬を〈いかき〉と読み,味噌漉(みそこし)としている。いまでも京阪では〈いかき〉,東京では〈ざる〉と呼ぶが,語源については〈いかき〉は〈湯かけ〉から,〈ざる〉は〈そうり〉から転じたなどとされる。…

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