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桂巻(katsura maki): a style of women's head wrapping popular during the Muromachi Period, using a long piece of cloth tied in front above the forehead
桂宮(Katsura-no-miya): one of the four 親王家(shinnōke, “branches of the Imperial Family of Japan which were eligible to succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne in the event that the main line should die out”)
桂宮院(Keikyūin), 桂宮院(Keigūin): the inner temple building at the Hōryūji Temple in Kyoto
桂月(keigetsu): alternative word for 月(tsuki, “the moon”); the eighth lunar month
桂湖村(Katsura Koson): a Japanese author, lived 1868-1934
桂芝(keishi): alternative word for 万年茸(mannentake), a type of mushroom
桂樹(keiju): common name for various trees in familyLauraceae, particularly the cinnamon or cassia trees; a legendary tree growing on the moon; alternative for 浜枇杷(hamabiwa, “a type of tree in the genus Litsea, related to the laurel”)
桂春団治(Katsura Harudanji): stage name for 川田藤吉(Kawada Fujiyoshi), a 落語(rakugo, “traditional Japanese comedy”) performer in Ōsaka, lived 1881-1937
桂女(katsurame): a type of 巫女(miko, “shrine maiden”); a woman selling of katsura ayu and katsura ame in areas around old Kyōto; a prostitute from the village of Katsura near Kyōto; a noblewoman's bridesmaid in ancient Japan
From Old Japanese. Originally a compound of 香(ka, “fragrance, good smell”) + 出(zu, “to come out, to put something out”) + ら(ra, nominalizing suffix): "that which puts out a good smell", from the way the wood smells good.
a tree on the moon, from a Chinese legend that the phases of the moon were caused by Lauraceae trees budding, blossoming, then dropping their flowers and leaves again as if in accelerated seasons
From Old Japanese. Alternative spelling for 女桂(mekatsura, “female katsura”), an archaic name for the cinnamon tree. Compare 男桂(okatsura, “male katsura: the katsura tree”). Appears with this reading in the 和名類聚抄(Wamyō Ruijushō), a Japanese dictionary of Chinese characters completed in 938.
From a Chinese legend that the phases of the moon were caused by kei trees, which would bud, blossom, then drop their flowers and leaves again as if in accelerated seasons.
