習作

Japanese JLPT N1 Vocabulary Japanese ★★★ 3/5 neutral しゅうさくshūsaku
読み しゅうさく
ローマ字 shūsaku
漢字の分解 習 (shū) — learn, practise; 作 (saku) — work, composition
発音 /ɕɯː.sa.kɯ/

意味

Study; practice piece; a work created as an exercise or rehearsal for a more mature work.

Used across literature, painting, and music to describe work produced during a formative or apprenticeship phase. The term 習作期 (apprenticeship period) refers to an artist's early years before finding their distinctive voice. 習作 are valued not for exhibition but as evidence of a creator's developmental process.

例文

  1. 若い頃の習作とはいえ、すでに作家の独自の文体が垣間見える。
  2. その絵は習作として描いたものだが、師匠にはむしろ完成品と評価された。
  3. 作家の未発表の習作が没後に発見され、文壇で話題を呼んだ。

使い方ガイド

場面: literary criticism, art, music

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

Compound of 習 (shū, learn/practise) and 作 (saku, work/composition). Directly parallels the Western concept of an étude in music or a study in visual art, entering Japanese artistic vocabulary in the Meiji era alongside Western aesthetic terminology.

文化的背景

時代: Meiji–Modern

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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