Ah, so angry

Japanese: 嗚呼∥烏滸 - おこ

It is also written in Chinese characters as 滸, 尾籠, and so on. In the past, it was also called オコ or ウコ. Simply put, it means stupid or foolish, but it is a multi-sense word that also refers to actions that try to make people laugh or actions that are out of the ordinary, and it is an extremely important word when exploring the clownish spirit in Japan. The origin of the word is said to be the same as ｏｋａし, but it is unclear. An old example is in the Kojiki and Nihon shoki Kayo, which say, "My heart is so irritated that I am now pitiful." In the entry for July 29, 880, in the Sandai Jitsuroku, it says, "Ukonoe Naritomitsugu and Nagao Yonetsugu are good at performing arts and sangaku, and make people laugh. They are similar to the so-called ｏ人." This shows that people who performed sangaku were considered idiots.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

滸，，尾籠などとも漢字をあてる。古くはヲコ，ウコとも。単純にいえば，おろか，愚鈍の意味だが，人を笑わせようとするような行為や，常軌を逸した行為などをもさす，多義的な語で，日本における道化的精神をさぐるのにきわめて重要な語といえる。語源はヲカシと同根かともされるが未詳。記紀歌謡に〈我が心しぞ　いやをこにして　今ぞくやしき〉とあるのが古い用例。《三代実録》元慶4年(880)7月29日の条に〈右近衛内蔵冨継，長尾米継，伎に散楽を善くし，人をして大咲(笑)せしむ，いはゆる滸人これに近し〉とあって，散楽を演ずる人物がオコな人間と考えられていたことがわかる。

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