Nippon Maru

Japanese: 日本丸 - にっぽんまる

(1) In 1592, Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered Kuki Yoshitaka to build a large Ataka ship in Ominato, Ise Province (Mie Prefecture) as a royal ship when he dispatched troops to Korea. It was the largest Ataka ship at the time, with a bottom board length of about 25 meters, shoulder width of 9.4 meters, and depth of 3 meters. It had a luxuriously decorated house, as befits a royal ship. One theory is that Hideyoshi was so impressed by the excellent workmanship of the Miyatoku Maru, built by Mori Terumoto in 1593, that he renamed it Nippon Maru, but this theory is not reliable because the ship's dimensions are exaggerated. (2) A four-masted barque-type sailing ship built in 1930 as a sailing training ship. Along with its sister ship, the Kaiwo Maru, it is one of the world's largest sailing ships. Both ships were replaced in 1984 and 1989, respectively.

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Japanese:

(1) 文禄1 (1592) 年，豊臣秀吉が朝鮮出兵に際し，御座船として九鬼嘉隆に命じて伊勢国 (三重県) の大湊で造らせた大型の安宅 (あたけ) 船。船底材の長さ約 25m，肩幅 9.4m，深さ 3mの，当時としては最大級の安宅船で，御座船らしく豪華な装飾の屋形が設けられていた。一説には，同2年に毛利輝元が建造した『宮徳丸』のできばえがすばらしく，それに感嘆した秀吉が『日本丸』と改名させたというが，このほうは船の寸法が誇大にすぎるので，確実性に乏しい。 (2) 1930年，帆船練習船として建造された4本マストのバーク型帆船で，姉妹船の『海王丸』とともに世界有数の大型帆船である。両船はそれぞれ 84年，89年に代船が新造された。

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