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モデルノロギオ

Meanings

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noun

modernologio

A term coined by Kon Wajiro for the observation and recording of modern urban life and customs. Rare, academic, and historically specific.

今こん和わ次じ郎ろうのモデルノロギオは、昭しょう和わ初しょ期きの都と市し生せい活かつを克こく明めいに記き録ろくした。
Kon Wajiro's modernologio meticulously documented urban life in the early Showa period.

Etymology

Coined by Japanese architect and designer Kon Wajiro (今和次郎), likely from a blend of 'modern' and the Greek-derived suffix '-ology', with Italianate or Esperanto-like influence. The exact derivation is uncertain.