Glossary K

き

きぎす

きぎす（雉）　名

This seems to be an older or variant name for the きじ, as attested in the 倭名類聚抄:「広雅云、雉...(和名木々須、一云木之)野鶏也」. The term shows up in one SIS poem but then begins to occur more frequently, particularly in Muromachi period poetry. In the 古今和歌六帖, two of the poems in the きじ group (718 and 719) have きぎす instead, so at least in the mid-Heian period they were regarded as the same.

SIS: 21