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SHORT GLOSSARY OF JAPANESE WORDS
BIJIN-YE. Pictures of beautiful girls.
BON (or HON). Book.
DAIMYŌ. The lord of a Province.
DERA (or TERA). A temple.
FUDE. A writing or painting brush; an artist's brush-
work.
FŪRYŪ. Fashionable, ὰ la mode.
FUSUMA. Sliding partitions in Japanese rooms.
GEISEL. Art-surname.
GŌ. Art-name, nom de pinceau.
GWA. Picture or drawing; drawn by.
GWAFU. Sketchbook.
GWAJŌ. Folding album with pictures.
GWAMYŌ. Art personal name.
HAIKAI. Seventeen-syllable poems.
HAKKEI. Eight views forming a series.
HAN. Engraved block for printing.
HASHIRA. Inscription on the outer edges of a book,
giving title, page number, etc.
HASHIRAKAKE. Pillar-hanging print, about 27 in. by 4
in.
HASHIRA-YE. Same as HASHIRAKAKE.
HIBACHI. A pan holding charcoal for warming pur-
poses.
HON (or BON). Book.
HONYA. Bookshop; bookseller.
HOSO-YE. Narrow vertical print, about 12 in. by 6 in.
HYAKUNIN ISSHU. Anthology of the One Hundred
Poets, made, according to tradition, in the thirteenth
century.
HYAKU. One hundred.
ICHIMAI-YE. Single-sheet prints.
KABUKI. Dramatic performances; the Popular theatre.
KAKEMONO. A hanging picture.
KAKEMONO-YE. A print in kakemono form, usually
about 27 in. by 12 in.
KAMURO. Girl attendant Of OIRAN, the principal
courtesan.
KENTŌ. Guide-mark on wood-blocks for securing
accurate register.
KIBYŌSHI. 'Yellow-backs', small story books.
KIWAME. Approved (by the censor).
KWACHŌ-YE. Pictures of flowers and birds.
KYŌKA. Comic verses of 31 syllables.
MEISHO (or MEISHO-KI). Guide-book.
MON. Badge or device denoting family, house, etc.
MONOGATARI. Narrative tale, romance.
NISHIKI-YE. Brocade pictures, i.e., colour-prints.
NŌ. The classical drama.
OBI. Sash or girdle.
OIRAN. Superior class of courtesan.
OTOKODATE. One of a fraternity of chivalrous men who
defended the weak and wronged against oppression.
SAMISEN. Three-stringed musical instrument.
SEIRŌ. Green-Houses, i.e., houses licensed for prostitu-
tion, e.g., Yoshlwara in Yedo.
SHINZŌ. An apprentice courtesan.
TANZAKU. Narrow vertical prints, about 14 in. by 4 in.
TOBA-YE. Comic pictures of caricature type, named
after Toba SōJō, a painter of the eleventh to twelfth
centuries.
UCHIWA-YE. Print for mounting on a non-folding fan.
UKI-YE. Perspective pictures.
UKIYO-YE. Literally, Pictures of the Floating World;
figuratively, Pictures of Gay Life.
YEHON. Picture-book.
YOKO-YE. Horizontal picture.
YOMI-HON. Reading book.

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