Itaomacip

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

Ainu Cultural Preservations Council (1970). Ainu Folklore. Daiichi Hoki Shuppan. p. 432.
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.

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[:0-1] 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.