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Etymology

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I'm a Japanese user. I'm always surprised at high completeness on the articles about Japan. But I felt some insufficiency today. I think the majority of Japanese knows the etymology of the omisoka, but I don't have any data or findings, then it's OK. According with miso, in the Japanese original numeric system so is not a suffix, it's simply means ten in the since like Chinese numeric system 十 (ten), such as mi-so-hito-mo-ji (kanji:三十一文字 We japanese sometimes call Tanka (poetry) as misohitomoji because 5+7+5+7+7 makes 31 characters), mi-so-ji (kanji:三十路 means 30 years old or 30s, 40s=yo-so-ji, 50s=i-so-ji and so on). You who reads through this would understand why I don't modify the articl by myself. Yes, my English is terrible. Would you please modify the article properly. Thank you.--Monte Fango (talk) 03:26, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

@Monte Fango: Late reply, but if you can repost your request in Japanese, we can make sure of what you are wanting changed. Also, if you have sources to back up what you want changed, that will be helpful. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 23:35, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

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@Athomeinkobe: This one might be useful: 大晦日(おおみそか)と正月 Omisoka & Shogatsu. Also, three books might be useful according to Google Books:

  • New Times in Modern Japan by Stefan Tanaka
  • Introduction to Japanese Culture by Daniel Sosnoski
  • Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia edited by Christian Roy

I ordered these three books. I'll also look through my own books on Japan and see if I can find anything useful. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 23:27, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]