Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts: Transliterated into Roman with introductions, notes and glossaries
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Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts: Transliterated into Roman with introductions, notes and glossaries
Japanese literature -- To 1868
=kurenawino=, red, a deep red; used with _iro_ (colour); _-- utsushi
kokoro_, show feeling by change of colour? 64, 106, 216.
=kusakageno=, grass-shade; applied to Arawi Cape, but the use here is
not understood. Ara-wi is raw rush of some sort. Its use with _anu_
is equally unclear. (In I. an explanation is given connected with the
withering (_aru_) of vegetation under the shadow of tall grasses or
herbs.)
=kusamakura=, grass pillow, pillow of herbs, while on a journey often
the only available one; used with _tabi_, journey, also with _tago_ for
_hatago_, a basket to hold food for a journey, 1, 4, 12, 23, 40, 49.
=kushiromaku=, armlet-wind; used with Tafushi (hill-name)--_ta_ read
homophonously as arm.
=kuzunoneno=, root of Pueraria; with _naga_, long.
=makanamochi= (=te=), with a true _kana_ (shaping or scraping-tool); m.
k. of _yuge nokahara_, _yuge_ = _yumi kedzuru_, shape or scrape into
bow-shape, scrape bow.
=makanefuku=, true metal (iron) smelt; descriptive epithet of Nifu (pl.
n.).
=makibashira=, pillars of _maki_ (right-word, _hi no ki_, Chamaecyparis
obtusa?); applied to _futoki_ (stout), _futoki kokoro_, stout heart.
=makinotatsu=, see makitatsu.
=makisaku=, split _maki_ into planks for building; applied to _hi [no
tsumade]_ Chamaecyparis timber, 13.
=makitatsu=, where _maki_ trees grow; epithet of _arayama_, wild hills,
12.
=makitsumu=, heaping _maki_ timber; as to float down Idzumi River,
hence m. k. of that river.
=makomokaru=, fine-komo (rush)-reap; epithet of Ohonu River.
=makuradzuku=, put pillows close together; epithet of _tsumaya_,
spousal pavilion, 28, 236.
=makusakaru=, where-fine-grass-cut; the fine-grass is _susuki_,
Miscanthus sinensis; epithet of Aranu (name of a moor--wild-moor).
=makuzuhafu=, where-fine-_kuzu_-creeps--_kusu_ is Pueraria
Thunbergiana, Benth., a leguminous trailing plant; descriptive epithet
of Kasuga Hill and Wonu Moor, 84.
=managotsuchi.= There is a place called Manago ura. The m. k. is
written ‘beloved-child’, and is used by sound-quibble in _Managotsuchi
manaho ni shite_, where _manaho_, &c. = right, truly, just. In
_managotsuchi manaku tokinashi aga kofuraku ha_, _manago_ may be =
_masago_, and the whole mean, my love is so unceasing, that not even
the interval of a grain of sand is to be found in its continuity.
Probably _managotsuchi_ = simply sandy soil.
=mashimidzuno=, pure cold water; applied to _kokoro mo keya ni_,
unsullied the heart.
=masokagami=, perfect-mirror, i.e. perfectly polished, used with words
of seeing, shining, polishing, hanging up, &c., 32, 59.
=masugeyoshi=, where-right-sedge-good; epithet of Soga no kahara (dry
part of a river-bed).
=masurawono= (_ma-arashi-wo_), [or _ma-so-_], right-fierce-man,
warrior; applied to Tayuhi ga ura (Bay of Tayuhi)--_ta_ is written,
hand or arm, the m. k. implies strength, 40, 52, 64, 216.
=matamadeno=, a sort of m. k., like fine arms; see 102.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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