Citations:いかだ

Japanese citations of いかだ

• 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 3:

  桴筏　論語注云：桴編_二竹木_一大曰_二筏［音伐、字亦、作𦪑］_一小曰_二桴［音浮、玉篇字亦、作_レ艀、在舟部、和名：以加太］_一

  Raft: the annotated Analects says that it is a floating raft put by bamboo trees that are big (the Sino-Japanese reading is bjot̚/botɨ, also written as 𦪑); a small one [read as] 桴 (the Sino-Japanese reading is pʰio/pu [or biu/bu]; in the Yùpiān the character is also written as 艀 with the 舟 radical; the Japanese name is ikada)

• 1603, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) [Vocabulary of the Language of Japan] (in Portuguese), Nagasaki:

  Icada. イカダ (筏) 筏。
  Icadauo cumu. (筏を組む) 筏を造る。

  Ikada. A raft.
  ikada wo kumu. To build a raft.

References

1. Doi, Tadao (1603–1604) Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1980, →ISBN.

Old Japanese citations of いかだ

Noun: “raft”

• c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 1, poem 50:

  泉乃河爾持越流眞木乃都麻手乎百不足五十日太爾作

  IDUMI₁-no₂-KAPA ni MOTIKO₁SEru MA-KI₂ no₂ tumaDE wo momotarazu ikada ni TUKURI

  Holding the rough-hewn timber from the true tree over Izumi river, I make a raft that does not suffice a hundred.

• c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 13, poem 3232:

  斧取而丹生檜山木折來而筏爾作

  WONO₂ TO₂RITE NiPU-NO₂-PI₁YAMA NO₂ KI₂ KO₂RIKI₁TE IKADA ni TUKURI

  I come to the cypress-filled mountain of Nipu holding an axe, then I cut down a tree to build a raft with it.

Noun: “boat”

• c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 19, poem 4153:

  漢人毛栰浮而遊云今日曾和我勢故花縵世奈

  KARAPI₁TO₂ mo IKADA UKABE₂TE ASO₁BU TO₂’PU KE₁PU so₂ wa ga seko₁ PANAKADURA sena

  Today, they said Han people are still floating around in a boat! My child, I want you to wear a flower headdress.

  Note: The red text can also be interpreted as PUNE WO UKABE₂TE of the same meaning.