Itaomacip

Summary

An itaomacip (Japanese: イタオマチㇷ゚, Ainu: ita-oma-cip, "boat with a board") is a boat built traditionally by the Ainu for seafaring purposes.[1] The name itaomacip is derived from the Ainu words ita-oma-cip, meaning literally a "boat with a board" (ita is a loan word from Japanese meaning "board"). It is a sewn boat enlarged via attaching side plates to a dugout canoe.[1] When navigating inland waters, like rivers or lakes, Ainu typically utilized a cip, or plain dugout canoe, but used itaomacips whenever navigating the outer seas for trading purposes. Its construction techniques are unknown from other regions of Japan other than Hokkaido.[2]

Itaomacip drawn by Kodama Teiryo, bearing cargo of fur and dried salmon for trade. The ship drawn is not to scale: the actual hull is much larger than a human.

References edit

  1. ^ a b Ainu Cultural Preservations Council (1970). Ainu Folklore. Daiichi Hoki Shuppan. p. 432.
  2. ^ Junzo, Kawada (March 2014). "Consideration on the hull construction method by Chikiri on the coast of the Sea of Japan-An attempt to position it in the ship shell construction method (日本海沿岸のチキリによる船殻造成法をめぐる考察 -船殼造成法における位置づけの試み)". 国際常民文化研究叢書5 -環太平洋海域における伝統的造船技術の比較研究- =Culture Studies Monographs 5 -Comparative Research on Traditional Boat-Building Techniques Around the Pacific Rim-. 5: 87–112. hdl:10487/12800.