Kinutashiage - Kinutashiage

...The cloth is beaten with a wooden mallet on a wooden board or stone. Even today, cotton and linen are beaten with a cloth-beating machine, giving them a so-called "kinuta" finish, but in the past, all of the beating was done with this hammer, and it was mostly done by women as a job during the long autumn nights. There are many songs and haiku that express the poetic sentiment of the sound that resonates far and near....

*Some of the terminology that refers to "kinuta finishing" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…木の板あるいは石の上で木の槌を持って布を打つ。今日でも木綿や麻布などは打布機を用いてこれをたたき，いわゆる砧仕上げをするが，以前はみなこの砧で打ったもので，秋の夜長の仕事として婦人が多く行った。その音が遠く近くひびく詩情をよんだ歌や俳句が多い。…

※「砧仕上げ」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