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
=sakikusano= (Habenaria radiata, Thun.); a three-stemmed plant, name of
which is thus used, with reference to the middle stem, with _naka ni
nemu_, sleep between (as child between parents), 70.
=sakuhanano=, blooming blossom; used with _utsurofu_, change, fade.
=sakurabana=, cherry-blossom; used with _sakaye wotome_, blooming maid.
=sanakadzura= (_sanekadzura_), 160.
=sanekadzura= (see _sana k--_), Kadzura japonica, L.; a long-coiling
creeper, hence used with phrases and words involving reference to time,
_nochi_ (after), _ahamu_ (will meet), _tayuru_ (cease), 27, 161.
=sanekayano=, seems = _sanekadzura_; (also _kaya_ with strong
close roots); used with reference to _makoto nagoya_ = sane, true,
real--yielding, soft.
=sanidzurafu=, truly red-like, ruddy; used with _ohokimi_, _kimi_,
_imo_, _wotome_, _iro_ (colour, complexion), _momichi_ (red of autumn),
_himo_ (cord, girdle), 45, 55, 94.
=sashinamino=, be on level, in row with; used with _tonari_,
neighbouring (buildings, houses, &c.), 90.
=sashinoboru=, ascend up towards heaven; said of Hirume no mikoto.
=sashisusumu=, a difficult word, as written = stick out; read with
_kuru_ (_kuri_), chestnut with the spines on, by sound-quibble as m. k.
of _Kurusu_ (name of a moor).
=sasudakeno=, sprouting bamboo; bamboo shooting from the ground, a
rapid process denoting vigour, &c.--hence used with words meaning lord,
prince, &c. also with phrase _ha komorite_ (_ha_) = leaf-hidden, 92, 93.
=sasuyanagi=, planted willow; slip of planted willow quickly roots,
hence m. k. used with _ne haru_ said of _adzusa_ (white-wood,
bow-wood), root-spread.
=sawoshikano=, like hart or buck; used with Iri (name of a moor), _iri_
read as _iru_, be in, i.e. where deer are.
=sayuribana=, lily-flower; m. k. of _yuri_, lily.
=sazarenami=, ripples; with _iso_, shore; _shikite_ repeatedly; _yamu
toki mo nashi_, without ceasing; _tachete mo wite mo_, continually.
=shidzutamaki=, armlet of mean person; with _kazu ni mo aranu_ (of no
account), _iyashiki_, mean.
=shihobuneno=, ships in port with or waiting the tide; used with
_narabu_, arrange in row; with _okareba kanashi_ the m. k. is obscure,
probably the reference is to ships left in harbour as one spouse is
_left_ when other away.
=shikishimano=, an epithet of Yamato as = Japan. A difficult m. k. It
is sometimes written ‘spread-out islands’, sometimes ‘stone-work or
fort-tract, or island’, the site of an ancient capital.
=shikitaheno=, spread out _tahe_, cloth made of mulberry-bark fibre; or
spread-out and fine, used with words meaning dress, pillow, bed-place,
dwelling, sleeve, 17, 26, 29, 30, 49, 58, 70, 82.
=shimadzutafu=, threading or coasting islands; m. k. of _fune_, ship,
boat.
=Shimanonuno=, Moor of Shima; used, by sound-quibble, with _shibashiba_
(often), _shiba_ and _shima_ being related in sound.
=shimatsutori=, island birds (cormorants); used with _ukabu_, swim,
float.
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