jinrikisha

English

Noun

jinrikisha (plural jinrikishas or jinrikisha)

1. 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

1. Rōmaji transcription of じんりきしゃ