Daimio (1811)

[Douglas G. Wilson]

On 5/6/2012 5:19 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> ....
> ...
> But the account, which I propose to give, must not be understood of
> the retinue of the most powerful princes and petty kings, such as the
> lords of Satzuma, Cago, Owari, Kijnokuni, and Mito, but only of those
> of some other Daimios, several of which we met in our journey to
> court, the rather as they differ but little, excepting only the coats
> of arms, and particular pikes, some arbitrary order in the march, and
> the number of led-horses, fassanbacks, norimons, cangos, and their
> attendants.
> Note also that the last sentence also shows a significant antedating of
> "cango" (kago, 1857). Norimon has a listing that goes back another 200
> years, but the rest of the Japanese terms are not in the OED (nor,
> likely, should they be).
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I suppose "fassanback" = "hasanbako"/"hasamibako" (box on a pole).

-- Doug Wilson

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