myoji

Updated: May 2, 2025

To judge by all this ideographic testimony, lovers in Japan or at least in Izumo are even more secretive than in our Occident. The enamoured youth never writes his own jitsumyo and his sweetheart's yobi-na together; and the family name, or myoji, he seldom ventures to inscribe.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : First Series