少納言

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少納言

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Shōnagon

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From 少 (shō, “junior, lower”) +‎ 納言 (nagon, “counselor”, on-reading of monomōsu-tsukasa).

• (Tokyo) しょーなごん (Nakadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

少(しょう)納(な)言(ごん) • (shōnagon) ^{←せうなごん (seunagon)?}

1. (historical, politics) a lesser counselor in the 太政官 (Daijō-kan, “Great Council of State”)
   • c. 974, Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha, Kagerō Nikki (part one)

     ...少(せう)納(な)言(ごん)のとしへて四(し)の品(しな)になりぬれば...

     ...shōnagon no toshi hete shi no shina ni narinureba...

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2. (colloquial, from Sei Shōnagon being a female writer) a literature girl

   Synonym: 文学少女 (bungaku shōjo)

• 大(だい)納(な)言(ごん) (dainagon, “chief counselor”)
• 中(ちゅう)納(な)言(ごん) (chūnagon, “middle counselor”)

From 少 (sunai-, “junior, lower”) +‎ 納言 (monomōsu-tsukasa, “counselor”).

少(すない)納言(ものもうすつかさ) • (sunai monomōsu-tsukasa) ^{←すないものまうすつかさ (sunai monomausu-tukasa)?}

1. (historical, politics, archaic) a lesser counselor in the 太政官 (Ōimatsurigoto no Tsukasa, “Great Council of State”)

• 大(おおい)納言(ものもうすつかさ) (ōi monomōsu-tsukasa, “chief counselor”)
• 中(なかの)納言(ものもうすつかさ) (naka no monomōsu-tsukasa, “middle counselor”)

From 少 (sunai-, “junior, lower”) +‎ 物申し (monomōshi, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 物申す (monomōsu), “to object, speak”).

少納言(すないものもうし) • (sunai monomōshi) ^{←すないものまうし (sunai monomausi)?}

1. (historical, politics, archaic) a lesser counselor in the 太政官 (Ōimatsurigoto no Tsukasa, “Great Council of State”)
   • 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 5:

     少納言　軄員令云：少納言［須奈伊毛乃萬之］

     Lesser counselor - according to the Shikiin-ryō: the lesser counselor, sunai monomōshi

• 給(きゅう)事(じ)中(ちゅう) (kyūjichū)