Translation guide
A cask is a barrel-shaped container, usually made of wood, used for storing liquids like wine or whiskey. In Japanese, the most common word is 樽 (たる), but there are also specific terms for different sizes and uses.
The learner wants to refer to a wooden barrel for storing liquids.
The most common and general word for a wooden barrel or cask. Used for sake, soy sauce, whiskey, etc.
この樽には日本酒が入っています。
This cask contains sake.
Wine is aged in oak casks.
Loanword from English 'barrel', often used in industrial or international contexts, like oil barrels or whiskey barrels.
The price of crude oil is quoted per barrel.
Specifically a sake cask. Often used in ceremonial contexts like kagami-biraki (opening a sake cask at celebrations).
We opened a sake cask at the wedding.
The learner wants to refer to a smaller barrel, perhaps for personal use or transport.
Literally 'small cask'. Used for smaller barrels, often for sake or soy sauce.
I bought a small cask of soy sauce as a souvenir.
Can also be used for small casks, but 小樽 is more precise.
The learner wants to use 'cask' as a measurement, especially for oil or alcohol.
Standard unit of volume for oil and sometimes alcohol. One barrel is about 159 liters for oil.
This oil field produces 10,000 barrels per day.
Historically used as a unit for sake or soy sauce, but not standardized. Rare in modern contexts.
This cask is easy to carry.
In the Edo period, sake was traded by the cask.