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Each stanza ends with the word "aoi," for which no satisfactory translation has yet been offered, although "away" and "it is done" have been suggested.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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These include Shirane-aoi (Glaucidium palmatum), which has large blue-purple, sometimes white, flowers, and Togakushisgouma (Ranzania japonica), found only in the high mountains from central to northern Honshu.
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In Japanese, they often use the term for "blue" (ao, adjective form aoi) to describe the color green (traffic lights are aoi for instance), even though they technically have a separate name for green (midori, which is used more often for the stronger, more vivid shades of green).
RRTeaching Rosie Redfield 2008
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Limited supply! the riosjoiasjd; aoi | 1: 13 pm | Vote: 0 0
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The festival gets its name from the aoi, or wild ginger, decordating the headgear of the marchers, the oxcarts, and houses along the procession route.
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Natsukusa ga nagareteku aoi mama tobasare suikomare
ianthopia Diary Entry ianthopia 2005
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Here we saw a few leaves of aoi 2 [Asarum caulescens].
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920
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It consists of 4002 verses, written in langue d'oil, grouped in stanzas or "laisses" of irregular length, in the heroic pentameter, having the same assonant rhyme, and each ending with "aoi," a word no one has succeeded in translating satisfactorily.
The Book of the Epic 1894
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