THE STORY OF O-TEI

THE STORY OF O-TEI

(1) “-sama” is a polite suffix attached to personal names.

(2) A Buddhist term commonly used to signify a kind of heaven.

[1] The Buddhist term _zokumyō_ (“profane name”) signifies the

personal name, borne during life, in contradistinction to the _kaimyō_

(“sila-name”) or _homyō_ (“Law-name”) given after death,—religious

posthumous appellations inscribed upon the tomb, and upon the mortuary

tablet in the parish-temple.—For some account of these, see my paper

entitled, “The Literature of the Dead,” in _Exotics and

Retrospectives_.

[2] Buddhist household shrine.

(3) Direct translation of a Japanese form of address used toward young,

unmarried women.