annen

Updated: July 18, 2025

This naturally inspires the young people with a desire to dance; so the table is pushed aside, and papa being squeezed nearly into the fire, mamma takes her place at the piano, and bursts off with the Annen Polka. It may seem strange to you, dear reader, who have an idea that colonists are merely wild beasts, that such things should be.

Edward Wilson Landor - The Bushman — Life in a New Country

This text-book, the Doji-kyo, was compiled by a priest, Annen, who lived in the second half of the ninth century. Its origin belongs, therefore, to a much more remote era than that of the Muromachi shoguns, but, in common with the other text-books enumerated above, its extensive use is first mentioned in the Ashikaga epoch.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era