_O-Gin_ "Silver."
_O-Ishi_ "Stone."
_O-Iwa_ "Rock."
_O-Kane_ "Bronze."
_O-Kaze_[63] "Air,"--perhaps Wind.
[63] I cannot find any explanation of this curious name.
_O-Kin_ "Gold."
_O-Ruri_[64]} "Emerald,"--emeraldine?
_Ruriko_ }
[64] The Japanese name does not give the same quality
of aesthetic sensation as the name Esmeralda. The _ruri_
is not usually green, but blue; and the term "ruri-iro"
(emerald color) commonly signifies a dark violet.
_O-Ryu_ "Fine Metal."
_O-Sato_ "Sugar."
_O-Seki_ "Stone."
_O-Shiwo_ "Salt."
_O-Suna_ "Sand."
_O-Suzu_ "Tin."
_O-Tane_ "Seed."
_O-Tetsu_ "Iron."
The following five _yobina_ are aesthetic names,--although literally
signifying things belonging to intellectual work. Four of them, at
least, refer to calligraphy,--the matchless calligraphy of the Far
East,--rather than to anything that we should call "_literary_ beauty."