花鳥風月

Japanese JLPT N1 Vocabulary Japanese ★★★ 3/5 formal かちょうふうげつkachoufuugetsu
読み かちょうふうげつ
ローマ字 kachoufuugetsu
漢字の分解 花 (ka/hana) — flower; 鳥 (cho/tori) — bird; 風 (fu/kaze) — wind; 月 (getsu/tsuki) — moon
発音 /ka.tɕoː.ɸɯː.ɡe.tsɯ/

意味

The beauties of nature; the four quintessential subjects of classical Japanese art and poetry — flowers, birds, the wind, and the moon.

A four-character compound (四字熟語) that embodies the aesthetic tradition of Japanese poetry and painting. It refers to the appreciation of natural beauty as a path to artistic and spiritual refinement. Found throughout classical waka and haiku, it represents the ideal subjects for a cultured person to contemplate and express in art.

例文

  1. 日本の古典文学は花鳥風月を題材にした作品が多い。
  2. 花鳥風月を愛でる心が、茶道や俳句の精神に通じている。
  3. 現代でも花鳥風月をテーマにした絵画は多くの人を惹きつける。

使い方ガイド

場面: classical literature, aesthetics, traditional arts

トーン: elevated

起源と歴史

A 四字熟語 (four-character idiom) from the Heian period. 花 (flower) + 鳥 (bird) + 風 (wind) + 月 (moon) — the four canonical subjects of aesthetic contemplation in East Asian art and literature.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Educated

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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