| 释义 |
‖ uji|ˈudʒi|
[Jap.]
In feudal Japan, a name indicating which ancestral noble family the bearer belonged to; a patriarchal lineage group comprising all those with the same uji.
1876W. E. Griffis Mikado's Empire (1877) i. xii. 117 The family name (uji) precedes the personal..name. 1896F. Brinkley Japanese-Eng. Dict. 1555/1 Although the offshoots from these noble families took various names.., yet these were not, strictly speaking, the family names or uji in the now-accepted sense. 1931G. B. Sansom Japan i. ii. 36 The society consisted of patriarchal units called uji, which were communities formed of a number of households of the same ancestry. 1970J. W. Hall Japan iv. 29 Being of the upper class the uji possessed surnames and bore titles of respect. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 238/1 The uji members..were supported by the labour of common workers, who were organized into subunits of the uji... Imperial rule over the various autonomous uji remained weak until the adoption of centralized government in the early 8th century. |