I don't know how much this had an effect on the name of the chair, but if you look at the historical linguistics of Japanese, "san" also had another meaning of "cut down." If this was taken into account, maybe it referred to the rattan used to make the chairs?
I don't know how much this had an effect on the name of the chair, but if you look at the historical linguistics of Japanese, "san" also had another meaning of "cut down." If this was taken into account, maybe it referred to the rattan used to make the chairs?
posted by devushka 16 years ago
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