異本

Japanese JLPT N1 Vocabulary Japanese ★ 1/5 formal いほんihon
読み いほん
ローマ字 ihon
漢字の分解 異 (i) — different | 本 (hon) — book, origin
発音 /i.hoɴ/

意味

Variant text; a version of a literary work that differs from the standard or received text due to scribal variation, editing, or separate transmission.

A noun used in philological and textual scholarship to denote a manuscript or printed edition that diverges from the established authoritative text (定本). Before printing standardised texts, hand-copying inevitably produced variants through errors, deliberate revisions, or regional traditions. Scholars compare 異本 to reconstruct original texts and understand how works evolved. The concept is central to classical Japanese literary studies.

例文

  1. その古典作品には複数の異本が存在し、研究者の間で長年比較検討されてきた。
  2. 発見された異本には、定本には見られない独自の章が含まれていた。
  3. 写本の時代には、書き手の誤写や意図的な改変によって異本が生まれた。

使い方ガイド

場面: philology, textual scholarship, classical literature, manuscript studies

トーン: academic

起源と歴史

Compound of 異 (i) meaning 'different, unusual' and 本 (hon) meaning 'book, origin, main'. Together they denote a 'different book' — a version that diverges from the primary text.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Scholars

関連フレーズ

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