| 释义 |
‖ Kuge|ˈkuːge|
Also † Cangue; kuge, Kugé.
[Jap.]
In feudal Japan, the name of the nobility attached to the Imperial Court at Kyoto; a court noble.
1577R. Willes in Eden & Willes tr. Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies f. 255 The heads and beards of his ministers are shauen, they haue name Cangues. 1727J. G. Scheuchzer tr. Kæmpfer's Hist. Japan I. ii. ii. 152 The whole Ecclesiastical Court in general assumes the title of Kuge, which signifies as much as Ecclesiastical Lords, and this they do by way of distinction from the Gege. 1871A. B. Mitford Tales Old Japan I. 71 The cap and robes worn by the Kugé, or nobles of the Mikado's court. 1880F. V. Dickins tr. Chiushingura (new ed.) 159 They were noble ladies, daughters of Kugé, who were peers of the Mikado's creation. 1904L. Hearn Japan: Attempt at Interpretation xii. 265 Next to him stood the kugé, or ancient nobility,—descendants of emperors and of gods. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. II Oct. 607/2 The court nobles, almost as useless and cut off from real life by the habits of the Court, of ‘ce pays-ci’, as Mme. de Grignan called it, as so many Kuge nobles of old Japan. 1970[see hinin]. |