... It is said that the first bicycles were brought to Japan during the Keio era at the end of the Edo period, and there remains a bone shaker-type bicycle that is said to have been so. According to records, the first ordinary-type bicycle (called a Daruma bicycle or Daruma car in Japan) was imported from America in 1870 (Meiji 3), and the first domestically produced bicycle, manufactured by Miyata Eisuke in 1890, was a diamond-frame safety-type bicycle. During the Meiji period, bicycle rental businesses became popular in major cities throughout the country, and bicycles were used by individuals as a status symbol for some of the wealthy and their children, the modern class. ... *Some of the terminology that refers to "ordinary bicycles" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
… 日本に初めて自転車がもち込まれたのは,江戸末期の慶応年間であったといわれ,そう伝承されるボーンシェーカー型の自転車が残っている。記録のうえでは1870年(明治3)にアメリカからオーディナリ型自転車(日本ではだるま自転車,あるいはだるま車と呼ばれた)が輸入されたのが最初であり,90年宮田栄助が製作した国産第1号はダイヤモンドフレームのセーフティ型自転車であった。明治時代には全国の主要都市で貸自転車業が流行し,個人用としては一部の富裕層やその子弟,モダン階層のステータス・シンボルとして使用された。… ※「オーディナリ型自転車」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。 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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