Itaomacip

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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.{{Cite book|last=Ainu Cultural Preservations Council|title=Ainu Folklore|publisher=Daiichi Hoki Shuppan|year=1970|pages=432}} 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. 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.{{Cite journal|last=Junzo|first=Kawada|title=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)|journal=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－ |date=March 2014 |volume=5 |pages=87–112 |hdl=10487/12800 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/10487/12800}}