Cultural Properties of the Munakata Region
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Oshima’s distinctive culture is reflected in its local language, which uses variant expressions for many everyday terms. A number of these expressions stem from ancient taboos or cultural exchange.
Words with inauspicious associations are typically substituted. For instance, since the meat of four-legged animals is not eaten on Okinoshima, even speaking the animals’ names is avoided. A cow, therefore, would be referred to as “horns of four (legs).”
Other substitutions reflect Oshima’s history of contact with foreign cultures. Sake is sometimes called chinta, a word thought to derive from Portuguese, and rice is also known as shari, believed to have roots in Buddhism. |
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