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Shadowings 



to moral or social distinction, to the hope that 

 the girl so named will become " illustrious." 



NAMES SIGNIFYING BRIGHTNESS 



O-Mika . . . . " New Moon." 1 



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-Iro .... 

 O-Kon .... 

 O-Kuro . . . 

 Midori* . . . 

 Murasaki* . . 

 O-Sbiro . . , 



" Color." 



" Deep Blue." 



"Dark," lit., "Black." 



" Green." 



" Purple." 



" 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^ofci'a, I thought it better in this instance to group the whole of 

 them together, independently of class-distinctions. 



