文人

Japanese JLPT N1 Vocabulary Japanese ★★ 2/5 formal ぶんじんbunjin
読み ぶんじん
ローマ字 bunjin
漢字の分解 文 (bun/fumi) — text, writing, culture; 人 (jin/hito) — person
発音 /bɯn.dʑin/

意味

Literary person; man of letters; literatus. Someone devoted to literature, poetry, calligraphy, or the arts rather than worldly pursuits.

Borrowed from Chinese literati culture (文人, wénrén), the term describes a scholar-artist who cultivates poetry, calligraphy, ink painting, and other refined arts as an integrated way of life. In Japan, the 文人 tradition flourished especially among Edo-period intellectuals. The word carries connotations of refined taste, philosophical depth, and a certain detachment from material ambition. 文人画 (bunjinga) refers to the literati painting style associated with this tradition.

例文

  1. 江戸時代の文人たちは詩・書・画の三芸を嗜み、互いに刺激し合っていた。
  2. 彼は典型的な文人肌で、名声や金銭にはまったく関心を持たなかった。
  3. 文人として生きることは、世俗の価値観との絶えざる緊張を意味した。

使い方ガイド

場面: literary history, art history, cultural studies, biography

トーン: scholarly

起源と歴史

Borrowed from the Chinese concept of the 文人 (wénrén), the cultured scholar-gentleman who practises the literary and visual arts as an expression of moral and aesthetic cultivation. The ideal was imported to Japan through classical Chinese learning.

文化的背景

時代: Edo–Meiji

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Educated elite

関連フレーズ

仮名 Kana; the Japanese phonetic syllabary comprising hiragana and katakana, developed from simplified Chinese characters. 侘び寂び Wabi-sabi; a Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty in imperfection, incompleteness, and transience. An appreciation for the humble, weathered, and irregular. 俳句 Haiku; a traditional Japanese poem of 17 syllables in three lines (5-7-5), typically evoking nature, a season, and a single vivid moment. 入門 Introduction; a primer or entry into a field of study. Also: the formal act of becoming a disciple under a master in a traditional art. 和歌 Waka; traditional Japanese poetry, particularly the tanka form with a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable structure. The classical poetic tradition of Japan as distinguished from Chinese verse. 和紙 Washi; traditional handmade Japanese paper crafted from plant fibres such as kozo (mulberry). A material central to Japanese literary, artistic, and cultural heritage. 四字熟語 A four-character idiom; a compound of four kanji forming a fixed idiomatic expression, often of Chinese origin. Known in English as yojijukugo. 常用漢字 Jōyō kanji; the official list of commonly used Chinese characters in contemporary Japanese.
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