竹のパイプ (take no paipu)
Bamboo is not just a Japanese thing. There are many reasons that ethniticies use bamboo. Japanese and other Asian people are just more likely to use it for reasons in their culture.
The Japanese did insert bamboo into the arms of the POWs and they would also jam sharp bamboo sticks under their fingernails.
"Take (竹)" is for bamboo. "Takenoko (竹の子)" is for a bamboo shoot.
Take.
十九 [shí jiǔ]
bamboo is a word and a plant but not a phrase "take"
竹 Read: "Take"
The ark was built in the Middle East and there is no bamboo located or grown in the region. There would have been no bamboo pipes. Bamboo comes from tropical climates.
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竹 (ta-ke)
The Japanese Knotweed is known as the following names; fleeceflower, Himalayan Fleece vine, monkeyweed, monkey fungus, Hancock's curse, elephant ears, pea shooters, donkey rhubarb, sally rhubarb, Japanese Bamboo, American bamboo, and Mexican bamboo.
It is not true that the Japanese tied their POW's in bamboo fields and the bamboo grew through them overnight. Bamboo grows at an average rate of two inches a year so it could not possibly grow through a person over night.