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
=nubatamano= (there exists a good deal of learning on this word). It
may be taken as = black berries of Pardanthus sinensis, and applicable
to things black or dark--night, dream, moon, &c., 23, 24, 59, 60, 153,
154, 240.
=nutsutorino=, moor-bird; i.e. _kingishi_ (_kizhi_), pheasant.
=nuyetorino= (nuyekotori), like _nuye_-bird, whose cry is like that of
lamentation--perhaps a sort of owl; a m. k. of _uranage_ (lamentation);
also of _katakohi_ (solitary love--as when lovers parted); of
_nodoyobi_ (throaty, hoarse-voiced).
=ochitagitsu=, the fall and roar of rapids, cascades, &c.; applications
obvious, 71.
=ohobuneno=, like great ship; applied to Katori no umi (pl. n.); to
_kaji-tori_, steersman; other applications are obvious, one is to
_tanomu_, rely on, trust to (as a sailor to his tall ship), 17, 22, 26,
27, 59, 70.
=ohokimino=, great lord; applications obvious, e.g. to Mikasa yama
(hill-name), 47.
=ohokuchino=, great-jaws; used with Makami no hara, see 153; allusion,
perhaps, to _ôkami_, wolf.
=Ohotomono=, used with Mitsu and Takashi (pl. n.); the reference is to
the history of the Ohotomo clan. Cf. the Manyô lays on this clan.
=ohotorino=, great-bird, a name given to several large birds, swan,
crane, fêng-bird, &c.; applications obvious.
=ohowigusa=, Scirpus lacustris, L. (Japanese variety); this seems to be
used with _yoso_ (elsewhere, anywhere), by sound-quibble as if _yoso_,
were _ohoyoso_ (oyoso), everywhere, generally.
=ohoyukino=, great snow-storm; used with _midare_, confusion.
=okinisumu=, mid-sea-dwelling; applications obvious.
=okitsumono= (_oki tsu mo no_), mid-sea sea-weed; used with Nabari no
yama (hill-name),--_nabaru_ = _kakaru_ and _nabiku_, yield, bend.
=okitsunami=, deep-sea waves; applications are obvious when they occur,
to wave-motion, wave-restlessness, wave-heaving, &c., 252.
=okitsutori=, mid-sea-birds; applications obvious.
=okuyamano=, inner mountains, that is away from coast, recesses of the
hills; applications obvious.
=oshiteru= (--_ya_), probably _oshitateru_, surging, toppling; applied
to Naniha (_nami-haya_, swift waves). Some prefer to read the m. k. as
sparkling, shining, 48, 77, 79, 259. 261.
=sabahenasu=, buzz like flies in _sa_ (5th) month; used with _sawaku_,
make a noise or commotion (as a crowd does), 52, 69.
=Sadanourano=, place-name; by sound-quibble applied to _konosada_
(_wori_) _sugite_, the time having passed.
=sadzuhitono=, like hunters or fishers (wild boar or whale, &c.)--used
with Yutsuki (hill-name), _yu_ = _yumi_, bow.
=sagoromono=, outer garment; used with _wo_, cord, with which it was
fastened (sound-quibble in Wotsukubanero)--_wo_ is here a prefix,
perhaps of praise, sort of diminutive.
=sahidzuruyo=; see kotosaheku.
=sakatorino=, birds (that fly) about the pass; used with _asa koye_,
morning or early crossing of a pass, 12.
=sakidakeno=, like split bamboo; used with phrase _sogahi ni neshi_,
sleep like halves of split bamboo, back to back.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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