奇譚

Japanese JLPT N1 Vocabulary Japanese ★ 1/5 formal きたんkitan
読み きたん
ローマ字 kitan
漢字の分解 奇 (ki) — strange, wondrous, extraordinary; 譚 (tan) — tale, narrative, story
発音 /ki.taɴ/

意味

Strange tale; fantastic story; a narrative involving supernatural, eerie, or extraordinary events.

A noun for a literary genre or individual work featuring uncanny, mysterious, or fantastical content. It overlaps with 怪談 (ghost story) but is broader, including tales of remarkable coincidence, supernatural encounters, and inexplicable phenomena. Collections of 奇譚 were popular in the Edo period (e.g., 雨月物語 by Ueda Akinari) and continue to influence Japanese horror and speculative fiction.

例文

  1. 江戸時代には、怪異や霊魂にまつわる奇譚が多数記録されている。
  2. 作家は旅先で聞いた奇譚をもとに、幻想小説を書き上げた。
  3. 地域に伝わる奇譚は、その土地の歴史や信仰を映し出すことが多い。

使い方ガイド

場面: classical literature, folklore, horror fiction

トーン: literary

起源と歴史

Sino-Japanese compound. 奇 means 'strange, extraordinary, wondrous' and 譚 means 'tale, narrative, story'. The character 譚 is relatively rare and primarily appears in literary or formal compound words.

文化的背景

時代: Edo–Modern

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Literary

関連フレーズ

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