Woodcutter (木樵∥樵) - Woodcutter

Japanese: きこり(木樵∥樵) - きこり
Woodcutter (木樵∥樵) - Woodcutter
In Japan, it is sometimes used synonymously with soma. The word soma originally meant the mountain itself where trees were planted and timber was harvested, i.e. somayama, but later it came to refer to the timber extracted from the mountain, somagi, the felling of the trees, somadori and somadate, the timber construction, and even the river transport of timber, a broad range of woodsmen. In particular, the person who cuts down trees in the somadori and somadate forests, and the person who makes a living from this, is called a lumberjack, and sometimes woodcutter and woodman are used synonymously.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
日本では,杣(そま)と同義に用いられることがある。杣という語はもともと木を植え付けて材木をとる山そのもの,すなわち杣山(そまやま)を意味したが,後にはそこから採出した用材である杣木(そまぎ),その伐採の杣取(そまどり)・杣立(そまだて)や造材の杣造(そまづくり)から,さらに河川の運材作業の杣下(そまくだし)を含め,それらのことをひろく生業とする杣人(そまびと|そまうど)の称ともなった。とりわけ,杣取・杣立の山林の木を切ること,また,それを職とするものをきこりというが,杣人と樵夫(きこり)が同義語として用いられることもないではない。

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

<<:  Aerial roots

>>:  Kigoma - Kigoma (English spelling)

Recommend

The Tale of Shunko

A classic Korean novel. A novelization of a belov...

Médoc (English spelling)

The name of a region in southwestern France, occup...

Janata Teido

1545‐1611 A politician of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Comm...

AE (advertising) - Yeah

...In an advertising agency, there are sales repr...

Farsightedness - farsightedness

〘 noun 〙① (━ suru) To look into the distance. To c...

Positional motion

… However, it is the ancient Greek metaphysical s...

Hironobu Isobe

…Rice from the official fields in the Kinai regio...

Nanami - Naami

?-1381(Kouwa 1/Eitoku 1) A hermit from the world d...

Applismo - Applismo

...a political movement with the masses as its su...

Masatoyo Yamana

Year of death: 23 January 1499 (4 March 1499) Year...

Leek - Leek (English spelling)

A biennial plant of the lily family (APG classifi...

Uji Shibun - Uji Shibun

The name of the head of the Icchu-bushi Uji school...

Cotton padding - Wataire

It is a garment with cotton between the outer and...

Slochter

...The marine clay and peat areas inside the dike...

Carex lenta (English spelling)

…[Tetsuo Koyama]. … *Some of the terminology expl...