Someone
who cuts wood, marble, clothes, animals, and other things; also applied to some
rioting weavers in 1769.
"What would people have said if he had sent the
products of the greatest cutters and weavers in the land? And so, with his
usual care and sobriety, he had had a collection neither extravagant nor mean
put together, including a robe woven especially for Nakanokimi, and damasks and
other fineries. He too was the spoiled pet of the great, his manner so proud
that some might have called it aloof and arrogant, his tastes such as might, at
times, have seemed overrefined. The Eighth Prince's mountain dwelling, its
solitude and melancholy, had wrought a great change in him and led him to an
awareness of the tears of ordinary life. In rather sad ways the prince had been
of service!"
Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji (10th Century).
[Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker.]
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