まくらことば
枕詞
1. pillow word; decorative word used prefixally in classical Japanese literatureLinguistics
2. preface; introduction
3. Makurakotoba, literally "pillow word", are figures of speech used in Japanese waka poetry, where epithets are used in association with certain words. Their usage is akin to “grey-eyed Athena” of in the Ancient Greek epics of Homer. The set phrase can be thought of as a “pillow” for the noun or verb it describes, although the actual etymology is not fully known.
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