Pillow word
Pillow word（1880）The Classical Poetry of the Japanese, Trübner, London [EN]
- 5Almost every word of note has some ” Pillow-word” on which it may, so to speak, rest its head ; and dictionaries of them are often resorted to by the unready Japanese versifier, just as rhyming dictionaries come to the aid of the poetasters of modern Europe.
- 5A ” Preface” is but a ” Pillow-word ” on a more extensive scale, consisting, as it does, of a whole sentence prefixed to a poem, not on account of any connection with the sense of what follows, but merely as an introduction pleasing to the ear.
- 142The original Japanese word, whose derivation the Chorus thus quaintly commences by explaining, is not the firmament itself, but hisakata, the “Pillow-word ” for the firmament, which lends itself to a similar rough-and-ready etymology.
- 466The original Japanese word, whose derivation the Chorus thus quaintly begins byexplaining, is not the firmament itself, but /lisakata, the “pillow-word” (see p. 373) for the firmament, which lends itself to a similar rough-and-ready etymology.
- 31One of these is the Makura-Kotoba, or “pillow-word” as it is called, because it usually stands at the beginning of the verse, serving, as it were, as a pillow upon which it rests.
- 298Our old enemy the pivot-word is here, also the pillow-word, and several varieties of the ordinary pun, with various fearfully complicated acrobatic contortions of speech which I shall not attempt to describe.
- 133It is said that iu antiquity au ode commencing with the name of Mount Aqaka was the first copy hook put into hands of children. The term is therefore now used as the ” Pillow-word” for learning to write.
- 128Now it is the ordinary pillow word, and now a less stereotyped phrase