カピタン

Japanese

Alternative forms

• 甲比丹
• カピテン (kapiten)

Etymology

From Portuguese capitão.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) カピタン [káꜜpìtàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠pʲitã̠ɴ]

Noun

カピタン • (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 striped brocade weave that originated from foreign traders at the end of the Muromachi period

   Synonym: カピタン織 (kapitan-ori)