狂歌

• 読み: きょうか
• ローマ字: kyouka
• 漢字の分解: 狂 (kyou) — wild, crazy, unrestrained; 歌 (ka) — poem, song
• 発音: /kjoː.ka/

意味

Kyoka; comic waka; a humorous or satirical poem written in the classical 5-7-5-7-7 tanka metre.

A noun for a genre of Japanese poetry that uses the elegant formal structure of waka (31-mora tanka) for comic, parodic, or satirical content. Flourishing especially in the late Edo period, 狂歌 allowed commoners to engage with high literary culture while expressing irreverence towards social hierarchies. Ōta Nampo (Shokusan-jin) was its most celebrated practitioner.

例文

1. 江戸時代には狂歌が流行し、庶民の間で作詩を楽しむ文化が根付いた。
2. 狂歌は和歌の形式を借りながらも、ユーモアや諧謔を盛り込んだ表現だ。
3. 太田蜀山人は狂歌師として名を馳せ、多くの傑作を残した。

使い方ガイド

場面: classical literature, Edo culture, poetry history

トーン: scholarly

起源と歴史

Native Japanese compound. 狂 means 'crazy, wild, unrestrained' and 歌 means 'song, poem'. The prefix 狂 signals deliberate deviation from the seriousness expected of classical waka, marking the genre as comic and subversive.

文化的背景

時代: Edo

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Commoner/Literary