Crab

Japanese: かには
Crab

… [Motoji Okamoto]
[Origin of the word hippopotamus]
The word kaba can be used in two ways: as a general term for trees in the Betula genus, or as a term for the bark of trees such as Chou-jizakura, Uwamizuzakura, Shirakaba, and Udai-kanba, or for these trees. The latter corresponds to the archaic word kani-ni-wa, and in the past birch and cherry trees were confused because their bark is similar, but they both were used as materials for making bentwood. Both kaba and kani-ni-wa are said to come from the Ainu word karimpa, which means umida-kanba and oyamazakura.

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

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…【岡本 素治】
[カバの語源]
 カバの語は,カバノキ属の樹木を総称する場合と,チョウジザクラ,ウワミズザクラ,シラカバ,ウダイカンバなどの樹皮もしくはこれらの樹木をいう場合と2通りある。後者は古語の〈かには〉にあたるもので,古くはカバノキとサクラの仲間は,樹皮が似ているので混同されていたが,ともに曲物の材料とされた点は共通している。カバ,〈かには〉は,いずれもウダイカンバおよびオオヤマザクラのアイヌ語カリンパkarimpaによるものといわれる。…

※「かには」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

<<:  Crab [Hot Spring] - Ganiba

>>:  "The Book of Crab" - Kani no Hon

Recommend

External power supply method

...The value of the cathodic current (corrosion p...

Attention - Chuui (English spelling) attention

Attention is the mental process or ability to take...

Ancient Documents of Great Japan

A collection of ancient documents. It has been com...

Guayule rubber

…This raw rubber is used as a raw material, and w...

Propertius - Sextus Propertius

An ancient Roman elegiac poet. Born in Assisi. Be...

Wallace, A.

...Other examples include the cargo cults of Mela...

Environmental Colors

...Regarding visibility, a typical example is the...

Kitab A'jāb al-Hind (English spelling)

…Persian captain active in the second half of the...

Law of demand and supply

The idea that the relative price of a commodity is...

Chemoautotrophic bacteria

… [Nutrition Form] Bacteria such as sulfur bacter...

United Airlines [company] - United Airlines

Abbreviation: UAL. The world's second largest ...

Archaeometry

…Conservation science can be defined as the natur...

Hendrik Conscience

1812‐83 Belgian (Flemish) novelist. Born in Antwer...

RCA - RCA

A long-established American company in the broadc...

Location Report - One Way

…(5) En-route air traffic control: This is the ai...