姫君

Compound of 姫 (hime, “princess”) +‎ 君 (kimi, “lord”). The medial /k/ voices to /ɡ/ due to the compounding in a phenomenon known as rendaku.

姫(ひめ)君(ぎみ) • (himegimi) 

1. title for a daughter of a high-ranking aristocrat or noble
   • 970–999, Utsubo Monogatari, page Tadakoso:

     姫君きこえ給ふ。

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   • 970–999, Utsubo Monogatari, page Fujiwara no Kimi:

     まめやかには、仲の大殿の姫君をなん、ちひさく聞え給ひし時より、うけ給はりおきたるを、かくなんとだに聞えでは止みなんや。

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   • c. 11th century: Tsutsumi Chūnagon Monogatari (Mushi mezuru himegimi)

     蝶めづる姫君のすみ給かたはらに、按察使の大納言の御むすめ、心にくくなべてならぬさまに、親たちかしづき給事かぎりなそ。この姫君のの給事、[...]

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   • c. 12th century: Torikaebaya Monogatari (volume 1)

     いま一所は、藤中納言と聞こえしが御むすめにものし給ふが御腹にも、姫君のいとうつくしげなる生まれ給ひしかば、さまざまめづらしく、思ふさまにおぼしかしづく事かぎりなし。

     Now at one place, the one who was called the Fujiwara Middle Counsellor had been born as a daughter but, even from the womb, when the very sweet seeming looks of the young lady were born, her being all sorts of uncommon, it was not just a matter of carefully caring for her as they thought.

   • c. 12th century: Torikaebaya Monogatari (volume 1)

     おほかたは、ただ同じ物と見ゆる御かたちの、若君は、あてにかほりけだかく、なまめかしき方添ひて見え給、姫君は、はなばなとほこりかに、見ても飽く世なく、あたりにもこぼれちる愛敬などぞ、今より似るものなく物し給ふける。

     Her whole body, the young lord of an appearance which seemed to be just the same, was of a elegantly refined mien, its freshness having increased, was in sight; even if the young lady looked on it brilliantly, proudly, it was not a world which satisfied her, such as a charm which spills about her, was nothing that did not seem like something from nowadays.

   • c. 14-16th century: Kazashi no Himegimi

     北の御方は大臣殿の御娘なり。姫君一人おはします。御名をばかざしの姫君とぞ申ける。

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• 若君 (wakagimi)

• Ichiko, Teiji with Osamu Akiya, Taizō Sawai, Kazuo Tajima, Kazuo Tokuda (1989) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei: Muromachi Monogatari Shū (Jō) (in Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN, pages 291-309
• Kōno, Tama (c. 970–999) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 10: Utsubo Monogatari 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1959, →ISBN.
• Ōtsuki, Osamu with Gen'e Imai, Sumiaki Morishita, Masao Karashima (1992) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 26: Tsutsumi Chūnagon Monogatari, Torikaebaya Monogatari (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN