Talk:Burikko
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Best, Cnilep (talk) 06:11, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Cherry Kittredge (1987), one of the most widely cited sources for the origin of the word burikko, asserts that "The word burikko was coined by one of these young 'talents', Kuniko Yamada, on a television program in 1980." That, unfortunately, is the entirety of Kittredge's etymological sketch. She doesn't tell us which television program, nor any other details. Laura Miller (2004), one of the other most widely cited sources, doesn't directly disagree with Kittredge, but she hedges the assertion, saying "Whether or not this is true, by at least 1981 burikko was commonly used in colloquial conversations, and the editors of an encyclopedia of postwar culture provided it on their list of trendy new words that were very popular that year (Sasaki et al. 1991: 1049)." (For completeness: Chizuko Ueno (1982), writing in Japanese, associates burikko style primarily with Matsuda Seiko, but doesn't suggest when or where the word arose.)
While I can't say that Kittredge was incorrect, I'm also not confident that she was precisely correct. I would not be surprised to learn that some people were using the word before 1980, just not on television. An earlier version of this article hedged a bit: "The term was coined during the 1980s, and is sometimes attributed to Japanese comedian Kuniko Yamada" (citing Kittredge). If that seems overly hedged, removing the sometimes may be appropriate, as many subsequent scholars cite Kittredge's assertion (though as far as I have seen, none add context or make it more specific). Cnilep (talk) 05:55, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]