Jikkinshō: to the Concept of urami [bitterness]
The Jikkinshōsetsuwa collection [Collected Admonitions in Ten Sections, 1252] contains stories and discourses interesting from the point of view of history of some concepts which play a significant role in Japanese culture as a whole. Being based on this original source, the article presents a range of meanings of the word ”urami” [bitterness] and a variety of contexts for its interpretation, including poems by Chinese and Japanese poets, Buddhist texts, etc.