Ink painting - Suminuri

Japanese: 墨塗 - すみぬり

[1] 〘 noun 〙① = sumitsuke (sumi-tsuke) ① [Haikai, Shinkiyose (1802)] ② The act of smearing ink on someone's face, etc. Especially during the New Year, smearing ink or pot ink on someone's face as a way to ward off bad luck. Also, the event. Sumi-tsuke New Year. Sumi-tsuke. [Fuzoku Gaho, No. 224 (1901)] ③ (figuratively) To deny and erase a fact, existence, etc. Eradication. ※Renkanki (1940) by Koda Rohan " Especially for women, their whole lives have been completely sumi-tsuke (sumi-nuri) , so Sadamoto's wife will no doubt resent and hate them." ④ The act of being smeared with ink. Also, the act of smearing ink. ※Haiku and Zatatsushu (1692), Vol. 2: "Thick white clay in the storehouse (yokogi), dripping with drops of ink on the water gutter (Tosui)" [2] Kyogen. Various schools. When a woman pretends to cry by pouring water from a water container into her eyes when she is leaving a feudal lord, Tarokaja notices her and replaces the water with ink, but the woman unknowingly pours the ink into her eyes, turning them completely black. In "Kyogen-ki (continued)", this piece appears as "Inkuri Onna (Sumi-nuri Onna)".

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Japanese:

[1] 〘名〙① ＝すみつけ（墨付）①〔俳諧・新季寄（1802）〕② 相手の顔などに墨を塗り付けること。特に正月に、墨または鍋墨を厄落しとして他人の顔に塗り付けること。また、その行事。墨付け正月。墨付け。〔風俗画報‐二二四号（1901）〕③ (比喩的に) 事実、存在などを否定して消し去ること。抹殺。※連環記（1940）〈幸田露伴〉「特(こと)に女に取っては、一生を全く墨塗(スミヌ)りにされるのだから、定基の妻は恨みもしたらう、悪(にく)みもしたらう」④ 墨が塗ってあること。また、墨を塗ること。※俳諧・雑談集（1692）下「明立も庫の裏白土厚き〈横几〉雫にしるる墨塗の戸樋〈遠水〉」[2] 狂言。各流。大名との別れに水入れの水を目につけて泣くまねをする女の様子に気づいた太郎冠者が、水を墨に入れ替えると、女はそれと知らずにつけて、目のまわりをまっ黒にする。「狂言記（続）」には「墨塗女」の曲名で見える。

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