Iki is generally written with the character "粋," but in specialist works it is written phonetically as 'いき' (iki) in order to distinguish it from "粋" (sui), which is the aesthetic sense of Kamigata (the Kyoto-Osaka district). いきは一般的には粋と表記されることが多いが、上方の美意識である「粋(すい)」と区別するために専門的には「いき」と表記される。 |