Basket - Basket

Japanese: ざる(笊) - ざる

A container woven from thin, split bamboo. Although the distinction between a basket and a sieve is unclear, a sieve is shallow, circular, and somewhat coarsely woven, and is often used for cooking. Because water leaks out of it, it is said that "water in a sieve" is used to express waste, and "zaru go" is used to express poor Go playing. The 10th century Wamyōshō uses the character sori and reads it as mugisukui, describing it as a basket for boiling barley, while the 15th century Gegakushū reads sori as ikaki and describes it as a miso strainer. Even today, it is called ikaki in Kyoto and Osaka, and zaru in Tokyo, but the origin of the word is said to be derived from ikaki (a boiled water pail) and zaru (a sieve) from sori.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

細く薄く割った竹で編んだ容器。籠との区別は明確でないが，ざるは浅い円形で編目がややあらく，調理に用いるものが多い。水が漏れるところから，むだの多いことのたとえに〈ざるに水〉，へたな碁を〈ざる碁〉などという。10世紀の《和名抄》は笊籬（そうり）の字をあてて〈むぎすくい〉と読み，麦索（むぎなわ）を煮る籠としているが，15世紀の《下学集》は笊籬を〈いかき〉と読み，味噌漉（みそこし）としている。いまでも京阪では〈いかき〉，東京では〈ざる〉と呼ぶが，語源については〈いかき〉は〈湯かけ〉から，〈ざる〉は〈そうり〉から転じたなどとされる。

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