128 Shadowings 



O-Taa "The Exquisite." 



O-Taka .... " The Honorable." 



O-Taka .... "The Ta^" 



Takara .... "Treasure," precious object 



O-Tama .... "Jewel" 



Tamaf "Jewel-branch." 



Tokiwa 1 . . . . " Eternally Constant" 



O-Tomi .... "Riches." 



O-Tosbi .... " The Deft," skitfuL 



O-Tsuma .... "The Wife." 



O-Yori " The Trustworthy." 



O-H/aka .... "The Young." 



Place-names, or geographical names, are 

 common ; but they are particularly difficult to 

 explain. A child may be called after a place 

 because born there, or because the parental 

 home was there, or because of beliefs belong- 

 ing to the old Chinese philosophy regarding 

 direction and position, or because of traditional 



family), promptly appears, pretends to find the babe, and carries It back 

 to the parental home. " See this pretty foundling," he says to the 

 father of the girl, " will you not take care of it? " The child Is re- 

 ceived, and named " Sute," the foundling. By this Innocent artifice, it 

 was formerly (and perhaps in some places Is still) supposed that those 

 unseen Influences, which had caused the death of the other children, 

 might be thwarted. 



1 Lit. " Everlasting- Rock. " but the ethical meaning is " Con- 

 stancy-everlasting-as-the-Rocks." " Tokiwa " Is a name famous both 

 in history and tradition ; for it was the name of the mother of Yoshit- 

 sun^. Her touching story, and especially the episode of her flight 

 through the deep snow with her boys, has been a source of inspir- 

 ation to generations of artists. 



