junk

Japanese: junk
junk

…In the past, the material was ajiroho, a bamboo woven with palm or bamboo leaves, but since the modern era, it has been a cloth shinshiho (with many bamboo ribs running horizontally). [Osada Tetsuo] The original form of the word junk, which is written as junk in English, can be seen in the travelogues of Odoriq and Ibn Battuta as early as the 14th century, and it is widely believed to have come from the Chinese word for boat (chuán) or from the Javanese or Malay words jong or ajong. Conversely, the Chinese character 戎克 is a transliteration of junk. …

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

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…材質は,古くはシュロやササの葉を籠目に編んだ竹で挟んだ網代帆(あじろほ)で,近世以降は布製の伸子帆(しんしほ)(横方向に多数の竹の骨が入っている)である。【小佐田 哲男】 英語でjunkと表記されるジャンクの語の原型は,すでに14世紀,オドリクやイブン・バットゥータの旅行記に見え,中国語の船(chuán)に由来するか,あるいはジャワ語,マレー語のjong,ajongからくるとする考えが有力である。漢字で〈戎克〉と表記されるのは逆にjunkからの音訳である。…

※「junk」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

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