Chabudai - Chabudai

Japanese: ちゃぶ台 - ちゃぶだい

A four-legged dining table. Usually square or round, the legs are often foldable. As the name suggests, this table is a table for tablecloths, introduced into everyday life, and the name chabu is said to come from the Chinese pronunciation of zhuō fú, which originally meant tablecloth. For Japanese people, who traditionally ate meals on individual plates, the tablecloth dining style, where several people sat around one table and shared food, was quite unusual and shocking, but eventually the advantages of this style came to be recognized by a wider class of people, and it came to be used in everyday family life where class discrimination was not necessary.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

4本脚の食事用座卓。ふつう方形または円形で，脚は折畳式のものが多い。卓袱台と書くように，卓袱（しつぽく）料理(卓袱)の食卓を日常生活に導入したもので，〈チャブ〉とは卓袱の原義であるテーブルクロスの意の中国音zhuō fúからきたものという。伝統的に銘々膳方式の食事をしていた日本人にとって，数人で一つの卓を囲み料理をとり分ける卓袱の食事形式はかなり特異で衝撃的なものであったが，やがてその利点を認識する階層も広くなり，日常的に身分差別を必要とせぬ家庭生活の中で使われるようになった。

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