Doran - Doran

Japanese: 胴乱 - どうらん

A type of bag. It is said that the name originated in the early Edo period when the name was given to a gunpowder pouch called a hayagou used by foot soldiers with rifles. Later, doran were used as tobacco and coin purses. They were small rectangular leather products, but they became larger and became portable items that could hold anything, and were called large doran. Towards the end of the Edo period, under the influence of Buddhist thought, killing four-legged animals was considered immoral, and materials such as wood, thin wood, Korean willow, and woven cloth were used to make doran. In the Meiji period, influenced by foreign cultures, bags began to attract attention, and handbags were called te-doran, and those worn on the shoulder were called kabuton-doran.

[Takeshi Endo]

Doran as a plant-gathering tool

They are usually made of tinplate, 40 to 50 centimeters long, and shaped like an egg cylinder or an elliptical cone. Many are gray or green on the outside and painted white inside to prevent small plants from getting lost, but some have one end of the inside divided into small compartments where small plants and moss can be placed. They are convenient for carrying back live specimens collected in the field, but they have drawbacks such as a small capacity compared to their external size, so nowadays people often use plastic bags or waterproof cloth instead.

[Akiko Sugiyama]

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Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

袋物の一種。江戸時代初期、鉄砲足軽の早合(はやごう)という火薬入れにこの名称をつけたのに始まるといわれる。のち胴乱はたばこ入れ、銭入れとして用いられた。形態は小形の長方形の革製品であったが、これが大形化してなんでも入れられる携行具となり、これを大胴乱といった。江戸末期になって、仏教思想の影響から四つ足動物を殺すことが非道とされ、胴乱の材料にも、木材、経木、コリヤナギ、織布などが用いられた。明治に入ると、外来文化の影響を受けて鞄(かばん)類が注目されるようになり、手提げ鞄を手胴乱、肩に掛けるものを肩掛け胴乱とよんだ。

［遠藤　武］

植物採集用具としての胴乱

普通はブリキ製で長さ40センチメートルから50センチメートルの卵筒形、楕円錐(だえんすい)形などの形をしている。外部は灰色か緑色で、内部は小形の植物を見失わないために白色に塗ってあるものも多いが、なかには内部の一端を小区画に仕切って、小形植物やコケなどを入れることができるようになっているものなどもある。野外で採集したものを生きたままで持ち帰るのには便利であるが、外見の大きさに比べて容量が少ないことなどの欠点があるため、最近ではビニル袋や防水布などを利用することが多い。

［杉山明子］

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