Uta - Song

Japanese: ウタ - うた
Uta - Song

…Few houses in fishing villages had workshops, so the beach was used as a shared work area for repairing nets, maintaining fishing gear, and distributing and processing fish. Words that refer to sandy beaches have been used since ancient times, such as uta, nago, yoriage, yuriage, and from the Kanto region to the Tohoku region, suka. In Osaka, the riverbank was called hama. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Uta" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…漁村の家はいったいに作業場がほとんどなく,網の修理や漁具の手入れ,あるいは魚の分配や加工などは,共同の作業場である浜が利用された。砂浜を指すことばとしては,ウタ,ナゴ,ヨリアゲ,ユリアゲ,それに関東から東北にかけてスカなどが,古来より使われている。なお,大阪では河岸(かし)のことを浜とよんだ。…

※「ウタ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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