soshi

Interestingly, shibai represents one corner of a triangle describing a typology of Japanese drama, because in Meiji, a number of plays under the rubric soshi shibai were popular.

languagehat.com: POLITICAL SHIBAI. 2004

"soshi," -- political ruffians, -- and fear was entertained as to the personal safety of the members of the Cabinet.

Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

In an attempt to create a semblance of privacy, almost everyone had odd arrangements of books and clothes and soshi screens and plants scattered around their fishbowl offices.

Insignificant Others Stephen McCauley 2010

A s a part of its assimilation policy, Japan forced Koreans to do "soshi-kaimei" adopt Japanese names instead of using their Korean ones.

Archive 2004-11-01 2004

The effect of "soshi-kaimei" is evident even today in a se nse, as the vast majority of Koreans in Japan still use Japanese names instead o f their Korean ones in their daily lives.

Archive 2004-11-01 2004

A google of soshi shibai turned up this page about Okinawan drama which I found quite interesting and I wonder if the use of the word shibai in Hawaii is related to the strength of the practice in Okinawa and the immigrant connection as well as the overt political content of soshi shibai.

languagehat.com: POLITICAL SHIBAI. 2004

The soshi seized the terrified palace ladies, who were running away, dragged them round and round by their hair, and beat them, demanding that they should tell where the Queen was.

Korea's Fight for Freedom 1900

The Japanese made straight for it, and, when they reached the small courtyard in front, their troops paraded up before the entrance, while the soshi broke down the doors and entered the rooms.

Korea's Fight for Freedom 1900

They further point out that Susanoo with his son, Itakeru, went to Shiragi and lived at Soshi-mori, for which reason Susanoo's posthumous title was Gozu Tenno, gozu being the Japanese equivalent for the Korean soshi-mori (ox head).

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Politicians employ them either against the soshi of opponents, or as bullies in election time.

Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints Lafcadio Hearn 1877