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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThis is actually from some \u201cModern and progressive dodoitsu<\/em>\u201d (kinsei kaikwa dodoitsu<\/em>) published in volume 3 of Kibi dango<\/em> magazine<\/a> (1879). The author is one Sh\u014dy\u014d Makoto (or Shinjin?) \u900d\u9065\u771e\u4eba, not to be confused with Tsubouchi Sh\u014dy\u014d \u576a\u5185\u900d\u9065\u2014although his(?) name is<\/em> a reference to the same passage from Zhuangzi. (In short, the zhenren<\/a><\/em> \u771e\u4eba is the \u201ctrue person\u201d who has mastered the art<\/a> of xiaoyao you<\/em> \u900d\u9065\u904a \u201cunfettered wandering.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway, the deal with these dodoitsu<\/em> is that their otherwise unremarkable gags include \u201cmodern and progressive\u201d vocabulary written in katakana. Here are a few examples, with the M&P vocabulary in bold and quick trots for reference (alas, I do not have time to give these lines the translatorly attention they deserve).<\/p>\n\n\n Yongu giruru<\/strong> no\/ sugata o kaete\/ nushi no waifu<\/strong> to\/ iwaretai Wocchi<\/strong> sagetari\/ b\u016bto<\/strong> o haite\/ neko ni misetai\/ kaikwa-f\u016b Raitoharuto<\/strong> no\/ omae o shirazu\/ horeta wa watashi no\/ kaikaburi (Note: \u201cLight-hearted\u201d here corresponds to uwaki<\/em>, which literally does mean \u201cfloating spirit\u201d but nowadays almost always means \u201cstraying, cheating\u201d in the romantic sense. Not sure off the top of my head about the situation for uwaki<\/em> or indeed \u201clight-hearted\u201d in 1879!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n And of course:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sosaichii<\/strong> de no\/ kuj\u014d mo shirazu\/ gonsai-kurui no\/ n\u014dburuman<\/strong> Meiji authors: We live in a… This is actually from some \u201cModern and progressive dodoitsu\u201d (kinsei kaikwa dodoitsu) published in volume 3 of Kibi dango magazine (1879). The author is one Sh\u014dy\u014d Makoto (or Shinjin?) \u900d\u9065\u771e\u4eba, not to be confused with Tsubouchi Sh\u014dy\u014d \u576a\u5185\u900d\u9065\u2014although his(?) name is a reference to the same passage from Zhuangzi. … Continue reading “Modern and progressive dodoitsu”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[74,14,39],"tags":[72,73],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-kanji","category-poetry","tag-dodoitsu","tag-meiji"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bLCp-2g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(The young girl<\/strong> wishes to change her form and be called his [your?] waifu<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n
(Dangling a watch<\/strong> and wearing boots<\/strong>\u2014a progressive [or civilized, etc.] mien one wishes to show the cat)<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Falling in love without knowing the light-hearted<\/strong> [i.e., frivolous, unfaithful] [side of] you was my overestimation [of you])<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
(The nobleman<\/strong> crazy about his mistress, ignoring the complaints in society<\/strong>)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"