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
=tawarahano=, like child in hand; with _ne_, _naku_, cry, to scream,
weep, 59.
=tawayameno=, like woman yielding, weak, &c.; with _omohitawa-yamu_, be
weak, feeble, yielding in spirit, thought, intention.
=terutsuki=, shining moon; what one is never tired of (_akanu_) seeing.
=tobusatate=, a difficult word. Kogi explains it as = _tomosatate_ or
_tadzukitate_, that is, ply a sort of woodman’s axe; this would explain
the use of the m. k. in the phrase _yama ni funaki-kiri_, fell timber
for ships in the hill forests. _Tobusa_ according to (I.) means an
offering of tree-tops by woodmen to the hill-gods.
=tobutadzuno=, flying crane; sound-quibble, m. k. of _tadzutadzushi_.
=tobutorino=, like a flying bird; used with Asuka (pl. n.), often
written _tobushima_. Another explanation is that Asuka = _ashika[ru]_,
light of foot = rapid, and birds are both rapid and light-footed, 23,
26, 86.
=tohotsuhito=, people far away, as travellers; hence used with _matsu_
(wait, expect), as in Matsura (_matsu no ura_ = pine-fringed bay);
_matsu no shita ji yu_ (from the road under the pine-trees); with
_kariji_ (there is a quibble with _kari_, wild geese, regarded as far
travellers (on account of their migrations)), 183.
=tohotsukami=, far-off, i.e. far above me--God = Most High Divine
Majesty. A m. k. of _ohokimi_, great-lord--His Majesty, 4.
=tohotsukuni=, far-off land; m. k. of _yomi_, Hades.
=tokikinuno=, like dress unfastened; m. k. with words denoting
confusion, disorder (_omohi-kohi-midarete_, disordered with grief or
love), 128.
=tokitsukaze=, time, i.e. tidal winds; used with _fuku_, blow (Fukehi,
name of a strand).
=tokorodzura=, (tokoro), a sp. of Dioscorea (wild yam), a trailing
plant; used on m. k. of words of seeking, seeking and not finding end
of; (_iya tokoshiku ni_, more and more perpetually), _tadzune-yuku_, go
on seeking, 125.
=tokoyomono=, a thing of the Eternal Land; applied to _tachibana_,
orange-bush, fruit brought by Tazhima-mori from Tokoyo, western land
(China or Korea).
=tokozhimono=, like one lying in bed-place; used with phrase
_uchi-koi-fushite_, lying prostrate.
=tomoshihino=, as a lit beacon; used with _akashi_, bright, illumed, in
Akashi no Ohoto, great gate or passage, of Akashi (pl. n.).
=tonamiharu= (_tori no ami wo haru_--spread fowler’s net); applied to
_saka_, hill-pass, part of pl. n. Sakate--birds being found in numbers
in such places, 134.
=tonogumori= (_tana gumori_), spreading of clouds; used with pl. n.
Amefuru River; _-- ame furu_ = rain-pour, 153.
=toriganaku=, cock-crowing; traditional m. k. of Adzuma, Eastland, 24,
43, 124, 258.
=torizhimono=, like birds; used with _tachi_ (rise up); _nadzusahi_,
swim in water; _uki_, float.
=tsubasanasu=, like the wings of a bird; used with _arigayohitsutsu_,
going to and fro; according to Kogi refers to flying through the air of
a man’s soul when he dies.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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