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鯨取り鯨魚取り勇魚取勇魚取り鯨魚取鯨取
いさなとり
1. [n] [arch]
▶ whaling



History:
2. A 2023-01-05 05:25:58  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2023-01-05 05:11:37  Opencooper
  Refs:
* daijs
* jitsuyō: https://www.weblio.jp/content/鯨魚取り
* jawikt: https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/いさなとり

Also a pillow word:
* jawiki (万葉集):
  そして「いさなとり」は、捕鯨を意味し主に海、浦、浜、灘などを表す枕詞として使われていた。 (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/万葉集#捕鯨)
  And the word 'isana-tori', mainly meaning whale fishing, was widely used as a set epithet to describe the sea, an inlet, a beach, the open sea and the like. (https://www.japanese-wiki-corpus.org/literature/Manyoshu (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves).html)

鯨取り  523 62.7%
鯨魚取り 162 19.4%
勇魚取   55  6.6%
勇魚取り  48  5.8%
鯨魚取   46  5.5%
鯨取     0  0.0%
  Comments:
Kokugos quote the Man'yōshū.

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