 |
|
| |
|
|
|
at Global Oneness Community.
Share your dreams and let others help you with the interpretation!
Dream Sharing Forum
|
|
Japanese ship naming conventions - Maru | | Japanese ship naming conventions - Maru: Encyclopedia II - Japanese ship naming conventions - Maru | | The word maru (丸, meaning "circle") is often attached to Japanese ship names. There are several theories associated with this practice. The most common is that ships were thought of as floating castles, and the word referred to the defensive "circles" or maru that protected the castle. Another explanation is that the suffix -maru is often applied to words representing something that is beloved and that sailors applied this suffix to their ships. A third explanation is that the term maru is used in divination and represents perfection ...
See also:Japanese ship naming conventions, Japanese ship naming conventions - Maru, Japanese ship naming conventions - Early conventions, Japanese ship naming conventions - World War II, Japanese ship naming conventions - Post-World War II names, Japanese ship naming conventions - Translated names | | | Japanese ship naming conventions, Japanese ship naming conventions - Early conventions, Japanese ship naming conventions - Maru, Japanese ship naming conventions - Post-World War II names, Japanese ship naming conventions - Translated names, Japanese ship naming conventions - World War II | | |
| | | Japanese ship naming conventions: Encyclopedia II - Japanese ship naming conventions - Maru
Japanese ship naming conventions - Maru
The word maru (丸, meaning "circle") is often attached to Japanese ship names. There are several theories associated with this practice. The most common is that ships were thought of as floating castles, and the word referred to the defensive "circles" or maru that protected the castle. Another explanation is that the suffix -maru is often applied to words representing something that is beloved and that sailors applied this suffix to their ships. A third explanation is that the term maru is used in divination and represents perfection or completeness, or the ship as a small world of its own.
Yet another explanation is a legend of Hakudo Maru, a celestial being that came to earth and taught humans how to build ships. It is said that the name maru is attached to a ship to secure celestial protection for it as it travels.
Today commercial and private ships are still named with this convention.
The first ship known to follow this convention was the Nippon Maru, flagship of daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 16th century fleet.
Other related archives16th century, 1867, 1891, 1895, 1902, 1921, Akagi, Chen Yuan, Chikuma, Fuso, Hiryū, Ikazuchi, Junyō, Kirishima, Shinano, Shōkaku, Tone, Yamato, Yukikaze, Aircraft carriers, Battlecruisers, Battleships, Emperor, Escorts, First Sino-Japanese War, Hakudo Maru, Heavy, Imperial Japanese Navy, Japan, Japanese clans, Kanto region, Light cruisers, Lord Chamberlain, Maritime Self-Defense Forces, Ministry of the Navy, Nagano prefecture, Philadelphia, Russia, Russo-Japanese War, Shinano Province, Shinto, Shogunate, Submarine tenders, Submarines, Torpedo boats, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Training cruisers, World War II, Yamato Province, battle of Midway, battlecruisers, battleships, cruisers, daimyo, destroyers, hiragana, kanji, light destroyers, torpedo boats
 Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Maru", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki |
|
|
|
More material related to Japanese Ship Naming Conventions can be found here:
|
|
|
« Back
|
Search the Global Oneness web site |
|
|
|
|
|
Sneak-Peek of Global Oneness Community
Hi friend! The Global Oneness Community, the place for information and sharing about Oneness is not really launched yet (you will see there is still some clean up to do) ...but it is now open for a sneak-peek! And if you wish - please register and become one of the very first members to do so! Jonas
Forum Home,
Articles,
Photo Gallery,
Videos,
News,
Sitemap
...and much more!
|
