| *In Meiji, as part of trying to make Japan look as civilized as Europe, European titles are adopted - [[Lord of the Privy Seal]] is basically just the position of [[naidaijin]], reinvented. - Ben Ami Shillony, "Restoration, Emperor, Diet, Prefecture, or: How Japanese Concepts were Mistranslated into Western Languages," Collected Writings of Ben-Ami Shillony, 67. | | *In Meiji, as part of trying to make Japan look as civilized as Europe, European titles are adopted - [[Lord of the Privy Seal]] is basically just the position of [[naidaijin]], reinvented. - Ben Ami Shillony, "Restoration, Emperor, Diet, Prefecture, or: How Japanese Concepts were Mistranslated into Western Languages," Collected Writings of Ben-Ami Shillony, 67. |
| + | *The word ''[[yari]]'' is said to appear for the first time in the Miidera chapter of the ''[[Taiheiki]]'', and in no earlier literature. - Told Round a Brushwood Fire, 142, 294n180. |