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Shadowings 



SELECTED NAMES OF STUDENTS AND GRADUATES 



OF THE HIGHER NORMAL SCHOOL FOR 



FEMALES (1880-1895):- 



so named. 



Ai ... ("Indigo," the color) ..... 1 



Ai ... ("Love") .......... 1 



Akasuki . . ("The Bright Helper") ...... 1 



Asa . . . ("Morning") ......... 1 



Asa . . . (" Shallow ")"i ......... 2 



Au . . . ("Meeting") ......... 2 



Bun . . . ("Composition" in the literary sense) a 1 



Cbika . . ("Near")* .......... 5 



Cbitosi . . ("A Thousand Years") ...... 1 



Cbiyo . . ("A Thousand Generations") . . . 1 



Cbipt . . ("Thousand Storks") ...... 1 



CbS . . . ("Butterfly") ......... 1 



CbS . . . ("Superior") ......... 2 



Ei ... ("Clever") ......... 1 



Ei ... ("Blooming") ........ 2 



Etsu . . . ("Delight") ......... 1 



Fudi . . . (" Writing-brush ") ....... 1 



Fuji . . . ("Fuji," the mountain) ..... 1 



Fuji . . . ("Wistaria-flower") ....... 2 



Fuki . . . ("Fuki," name of a plant, Nardosmia 



Japonica) ......... 1 



Fuku . . . (" Good-fortune ") ....... 2 



Fumi. . . ("Letter")* ......... 5 



Fumino . . ("Letter-field") ........ 1 



1 Probably a place-name originally. 

 Might we not quaintly say. " A Fair Writing " ? 

 Probably in the sense of " near and dear " but not certainly so. 

 4 Fumi signifies here a letter written by a woman only a letter 

 written according to the rules of feminine epistolary style. 



