Japanese

Noun

からむし ‎(romaji karamushi)

1. 苧: (plant) ramie, Boehmeria nivea var. nipononivea
2. 苧: cloth made from the ramie plant
   • c. 800: Shibunritsu Ongi (page 47)

     蒭麻衣 加良牟斯衣

   • 898-901, Shinsen Jikyō (volume 7 page 8)

     枲 <...> 麻 加良牟志也

   • 898-901, Shinsen Jikyō (volume 7 page 34)

     葈○ 加良牟志

   • 898-901, Shinsen Jikyō (volume 11 page 30)

     枲 <...> 麻也 加良牟自

   • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 6, page 57:

     麻苧 <...> 新撰字鏡 枲訓加良乎 葈訓和名加良无之 <...> 昌平本有和名二字 持統紀苧同訓爲加良无之 <...>

References

• Tsukishima, Hiroshi (c. 800) Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 2: Shibunritsu Ongi (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, ISBN 4-7629-3089-X, published 1979
• Shōjū; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (898–901) Shinsen Jikyō (Zōteiban) (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, ISBN 978-4-653-00029-7, published 15 December 1967.
• Minamoto, Shitagō; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, ISBN 978-4-653-00507-0, published 1968.