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to moral or social distinction, to the hope that 

 the girl so named will become " illustrious." 



NAMES SIGNIFYING BRIGHTNESS 



O-Mika . ..." New Moon." * 



O-Mitsu .... "Light." 



O-Sbimo .... "Frost." 



O-Teru "The Shining." 



O-Tsuki .... "Moon." 



O-Tsuya .... " The Glossy," lustrous. 



O-Tsuyu . . . . " Dew." 



O-Yuki . "Snow." 



COLOR-NAMES 



O-Ai " Indigo." 



O-Aka "Red" 



O-lro "Color." 



O-Kon " Deep Blue." 



0-Kuro .... "Dark," lit, "Black." 



Midori* .... "Green." 



Murasaki* . . . "Purple." 



O-Sbiro . "White." 



1 Mika is an abbreviation of Mika^uki, " the moon of the third night " 

 [of the old lunar month]. 



* Midori and Murasaki, especially the latter, should properly be 

 classed with aristocratic yobina ; and both are very rare. I could find 

 neither in the collection of aristocratic names which was made for me 

 from the records of the Peeresses' School ; but I discovered a " Midori " 

 in a list of middle-class names. Color-names being remarkably few 

 among yobina, I thought It better in this instance to group the whole of 

 them together, independently of class-distinctions. 



