North offshore tide

Japanese: 北沖潮 - きたおきしお
North offshore tide

...Kikyou-mizu and Kamikon-mizu (both in the Tohoku region) are similar in color, and names such as Masio (Mie Prefecture, etc.) and Hon-shio (Kinan) show the importance of the Kuroshio to fishermen. It is also called Hi-no-hon-shio, Kami-oki-shio (both in Miyazaki Prefecture), Kita-oki-shio (Sanriku region), and Otoshio (Izu Seven Islands). The existence of the Kuroshio has been known since ancient times, as can be seen from the story in the Tale of the Heike, for example, that a stupa was floated from Kikaigashima (Iwojima, Kagoshima Prefecture) and washed up on Miyajima in the Seto Inland Sea. The name Kuroshio is said to have first appeared in a document in 1782 (Tenmei 2) in Sato Yukinobu's Kaito Fudoki: Hachijojima, where there is a passage that reads, "...on the island, this is called both the Kuroshio and the Yama-shio..."

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Kitaoki Tide" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また桔梗水(ききようみず),上紺水(ともに東北地方)は色の類似性により,真潮(ましお)(三重県など)や本潮(紀南)などの名は黒潮が漁民にとって占めてきた位置の重要性を物語っている。さらに日の本潮,上の沖潮(ともに宮崎県),北沖潮(三陸地方),落潮(おとしお)(伊豆七島)などの呼名もある。 黒潮の存在が昔から知られていたことは,例えば《平家物語》に,鬼界ヶ島(鹿児島県硫黄島)から卒塔婆を流して瀬戸内海の宮島に漂着したという話があることからも分かるのであるが,黒潮という名前が最初に文献に現れたのは1782年(天明2)に書かれた佐藤行信の《海島風土記・八丈島》であるとされており,この中に〈……これを島にて黒潮とも山潮とも唱え……〉というくだりが見られる。…

※「北沖潮」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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