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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 



At ... ("Love") 1 



Akasuke . . ("The Bright Helper") 1 



Asa . . . ("Morning") 1 



Asa . . . (" Shallow ")U 2 



Au . . . ("Meeting") 2 



flw . . . ("Composition" in the literary sense) 2 1 



Oriha . . ("Near") 5 



Ctitose . . ("A Thousand Years ") 1 



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



Cbipt . . ("Thousand Storks") 1 



Cbo . . . ("Butterfly") 1 



Cbd . . . ("Superior") 2 



Ei ... ("Clever") 1 



Ei ... ("Blooming") 2 



Etsu . . . ("Delight") 1 



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



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



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. 



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

 written according to the rules of feminine epistolary style. 



