Douglas Brooks Boatbuilder - Japanes boatsJapanese Boats In Japanese, the traditional boat is known as the wasen. Wa means "traditional Japanese thing" and sen is one suffix meaning boat or ship. The word for boat in Japanese is fune; when attached to a modifying noun it gains a hard sound and become ....bune. I point out this usage since I use Japanese boat names in the text which follows. I began researching traditional Japanese boat bu
