御伽噺

Japanese JLPT N1 Vocabulary Japanese ★★★ 3/5 neutral おとぎばなしotogibanashi
読み おとぎばなし
ローマ字 otogibanashi
漢字の分解 御 (o/go) — honorific prefix | 伽 (togi) — night attendance, companionship | 噺 (hanashi) — story, tale
発音 /o.to.ɡi.ba.na.ɕi/

意味

Fairy tale; nursery story; bedtime story. A traditional short tale featuring magical or fantastical elements, typically intended for children.

A noun for the genre of traditional Japanese folk and fairy tales — stories such as Momotarō, Urashima Tarō, and Kaguyahime. The 御伽 element originally referred to a court attendant who kept company at night (to ward off loneliness), hence the association with bedtime storytelling. Modern literary criticism also uses 御伽噺 metaphorically to describe adult narratives with an unrealistically idealistic or escapist quality. Often written お伽話 in modern contexts.

例文

  1. その御伽噺には、単純な勧善懲悪を超えた深い人生の教訓が込められていた。
  2. 子供向けの御伽噺も、大人が読むとまったく異なる解釈が生まれることがある。
  3. 民俗学者は各地の御伽噺を収集し、日本人の世界観や価値観を探った。

使い方ガイド

場面: folklore, children's literature, literary criticism, cultural studies

トーン: warm

起源と歴史

From 御伽 (otogi, 'bedside companionship, attendance') and 噺 (hanashi, 'tale, story'). 御伽 derives from Heian court culture where attendants kept the nobility company through the night; 噺 is a specialised variant of 話 used for performed or narrated stories.

文化的背景

時代: Classical–Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal

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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