tarai tub

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tagaya 箍屋 - see below

tarai 盥 -　たらい　tub, basin, washing bowl, wash tub

A wooden tub, used for washing and cleaning.
Some could be very elaborate with laquer decorations.


source :　bunka.nii.ac.jp
badarai, umadarai 馬盥 basin for washing a horse
ashitsuki tarai 足付盥 basin with legs, about 30 cm diameter

badarai no mitsuhide 馬盥の光秀
a famous Kabuki play about Akechi Mitsuhide and Oda Nobunaga
source : www.kabuki21.com

. Mitsuhide - toki wa IMA .




In a Hatago lodging
When entering a hatago, travellers could wash their feet in a wooden basin (tarai たらい) and sometimes a woman servant would carry their luggage up to a room.


. Hatago (旅籠, 旅篭) Lodging in Edo .

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sushi tarai 寿司たらい basin, barrel for making sushi



. sushi oke 鮓桶（すしおけ）barrel for making sushi .
kigo for summer

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taraibune たらい舟 "tub boat"

used for fishing in shallow coastal regions or rivers.
Sado island is especially famous for its taraibune, used to harvest wakame and other treasures from the sea.
Now taraibune are also used to ship tourists on rivers.




. taraibune たらい舟 "barrel boat" and Matsuo Basho .




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A frail hut with a leaking roof in a remote place, dwelling of a man of letters, was also a favorite of the Chinese hermits and Heian poets.
Matsuo Basho phrased it this way:


芭蕉野分して盥に雨を聞夜哉
bashoo nowaki shite tarai ni ame o kiku yo kana

banana tree in a storm
the dripping sound of rain in a tub
all night long . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve

. Matsuo Basho and the Banana plant .


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うぐいすや梅踏みこぼす糊盥
uguisu ya ume fumikobosu nori darai

this bush warbler -
it scatters plum petals
around the glue tub
Tr. Gabi Greve



source :　www.rakanneko.jp

nori 糊, natural glue was used  when changing paper for the sliding doors, for example.


. kan nori 寒糊 (かんのり) glue made in the cold .
from the root of the Tororo aoi plant.
kigo for winter


. WKD : Nightingale, bush warbler (uguisu 鴬（うぐいす）) .



春の夜や盥を捨る町はづれ
haru no yo ya tarai o hirou machi hazure

this spring night -
I pick up a washing tub
at the outskirts of town



洗足の盥も漏りてゆく春や
senzoku no tarai mo morite yuku haru ya

the tub for washing my feet
also has a leak
and spring is coming to an end . . .

The cut marker YA is at the end of line 3. The use of MO is quite interesting here.


. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .


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芦火たく盥の中もちどり哉
ashibi taku tarai no naka mo chidori kana

even in the tub
where reeds are burning ...
a plover!
Tr. David Lanoue


たらいからたらいに移るちんぷんかん
. tarai kara tarai ni utsuru chimpunkan .


. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .


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tagaya 箍屋 hoop repairman, clamp repairman

taga 箍 is a hoop or clamp, a ring around a wooden barrel or bucket. In the Edo period the hoop was usually made of bamboo or metal.

The tagaya walked around in Edo, calling out for his service.

oke yui　桶ゆい / 桶結い　repairing buckets, barrels and tubs
wagae, wa-gae わがえ /　輪替え "changing rings" (hoops) of buckets, barrels and tubs



Some took the buckets home to repair them, others carried their tools and did the repair work right away at the roadside.

taga o kakeru 「―をかける / 掛ける」 / taga o shimeru 「―をはめる / 締める」
ゆるんだたがを元のように締め直したり、新しいたがに交換して、桶などを再生して歩いた職人さん。


- source : ginjo.fc2web.com


たが掛けはのの字しの字て日を暮し　
tagakake wa no no ji shi no ji te hi o kurashi
たが掛ケはのゝ字しの字て日を暮シ

to repair a hoop
he spends his day bending
and stretching it

This is a visual pun with the hiragana letter NO　の。


たがかけに四五間先キて犬かじやれ
tagakake ni shi-go ken saki ni inu ga jare

when the hoop repairman works
dogs is playing and biting at it
four, five meters away

The repairman had to stretch and fold the long bamboo string many times before applying it around the bucket. During that time the animals would play with one end.




尾州不二見原 Bishu Fujimihara by Hokusai 葛飾北斎

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