harpoon

Japanese: harpoon
harpoon

...The iron harpoon heads used for this are basically the same as those used in the Stone Age. [Kaneko Hiromasa] Among the Northwest Indians of Canada and the coastal Aborigines of Australia, there are hunter-fishermen who use the same harpoon to capture prey on land and in the water. In the Torres Strait dugong fishing, a man chases a dugong in a canoe, then jumps into the sea with a harpoon attached to a long rope and rams it, and then is dragged by the dugong while waiting for it to weaken, a heroic fishing method that puts his life at risk. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "harpoon" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これに使われる鉄製の銛頭も基本的には石器時代のものと変わらないといってよい。【金子 浩昌】 カナダの北西インディアンや,オーストラリアの海岸アボリジニーのなかには,陸上の獲物も水中の獲物も同じ銛(ハプーンharpoon)で捕獲する狩猟・漁労民がいる。トレス海峡のジュゴン漁では,カヌーで追いつめたうえで1人の男が長いロープのついた銛を持って海中に飛びこんで体当りし,あとはジュゴンに引きずられながらその弱るのを待つという命がけの勇壮な漁法が行われる。…

※「harpoon」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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

<<:  Harpur, C.

>>:  Harpokrates (English spelling)

OZ
OZ
Blog    

Recommend

Chrysosplenium album

… [Michio Wakabayashi]. … *Some of the terminolog...

Maastricht (English spelling)

The capital of the province of Limburg in the sout...

Lugol, JGA (English name) LugolJGA

…The Japanese Pharmacopoeia name for this solutio...

Clivia nobilis (English spelling) Clivianobilis

… [Munemin Yanagi]. … *Some of the terminology th...

Open Well - Open Well

...When used for the foundation of a structure, i...

Hydrozoa

...A general term for free-swimming Hydrozoa and ...

Existing conditions - Existing conditions

...Conditions relate to future facts. Past facts ...

Kari (Japanese music) - Kari

...Because the finger holes are covered directly ...

Tobu Railway

A private railway company. Founded in 1897, it ope...

Conjugated double bond - conjugated double bond

When a carbon atom chain has alternating single an...

Kishizawa Koshikibu (3rd Generation)

…Lyrics by Sakurada Jisuke II. Composition by Kis...

Roman Mstislavich

...As Kievan Rus's status as the Grand Prince...

Beads - Beads (English spelling)

Ornamental beads for handicrafts. They are small ...

Japanese cedar - Japanese cedar

An evergreen shrub or small tree of the Araliacea...

Ovulation induction drug - ovulation induction drug

A drug that promotes follicle maturation and induc...