jinrikisha
English
Noun
jinrikisha (plural jinrikishas or jinrikisha)
- Alternative form of jinriksha.
- 1894, Lafcadio Hearn, “Jizō”, in Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan […], volume I, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, section VII, page 49:
- So we take our way in two jinrikisha to the Temple Rin-ko-ji, on Kuboyama. We roll swiftly through a mile of many-colored narrow Japanese streets; […]
- 1895, Douglas Sladen, “Shanghai”, in The Japs at Home. Fifth Edition: To Which Are Added for the First Time Some Bits of China. […], London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward, Lock & Bowden, […], →OCLC, “Bits of China” section, page 284:
- Of course the first thing that struck us were the queer wheelbarrows used by the native population in place of the jinrikishas adopted from Japan for the Europeans.
Japanese
Romanization
jinrikisha