カピタン

Japanese

Alternative forms

  • 甲比丹

Etymology

From Portuguese capitão

Pronunciation

Noun

カピタン (rōmaji kapitan)

  1. a captain of a foreign ship from Europe to Japan in the Edo period
  2. VOC Opperhoofden in Japan; a chief trader of the Dutch East India Company during the Edo Period
  3. a kind of woven in stripes from #1

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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