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Japanese
Etymology
As it was done in the village of 信夫 (Shinobu) in Iwashiro Province, today part of Fukushima Prefecture.[1]
Noun
信夫捩摺り • (Shinobu moji-zuri) ←しのぶもぢずり (sinobumodizuri)?
- Synonym of 忍摺り (shinobu-zuri): cloth imprinted with shinobu fern (Davallia mariesii) designs
- late 9th century, Ise Monogatari (section 1, poem 3; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 14)
- 陸奥のしのぶもぢずり誰ゆゑに乱れそめにし我ならなくに
- Michinoku no Shinobu moji-zuri tare yue ni midare some-ni-shi ware naranaku ni
- My thoughts have grown disordered as random patterns dyed on cloth reminiscent of Shinobu in Michinoku―and who is to blame? Surely not I.[2]
References
- ^ Joshua S. Mostow (1996) Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image, illustrated edition, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 184
- ^ Helen Craig McCullough (1968) Tales of Ise: Lyrical Episodes from Tenth-century Japan, Volume 1, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 70