信夫捩摺り

信夫捩摺り

Japanese

Kanji in this term
信	夫	捩	摺
しん > しの Grade: 4	ぶ Grade: 4	も Hyōgaiji	す > ず Jinmeiyō

Alternative forms

• 忍捩摺り

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(しのぶもじず)り • (Shinobu moji-zuri) ^{←しのぶもぢずり (sinobumodizuri)?}

1. 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(みちのく)のしのぶもぢずり誰(たれ)ゆゑに乱(みだ)れそめにし我(われ)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

1. Joshua S. Mostow (1996) Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image, illustrated edition, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 184
2. Helen Craig McCullough (1968) Tales of Ise: Lyrical Episodes from Tenth-century Japan, Volume 1, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 70