耽美

Japanese JLPT N1 Vocabulary Japanese ★★ 2/5 formal たんびtanbi
読み たんび
ローマ字 tanbi
漢字の分解 耽 (tan/fuke) — indulge, be absorbed; 美 (bi/utsuku) — beauty
発音 /tam.bi/

意味

Aestheticism; devotion to beauty above all else; a decadent sensibility that prizes beauty over morality or utility.

Associated with the 耽美派 (tanbi-ha — Aestheticist school), a movement in Meiji–Taisho Japan influenced by European Decadentism and the works of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. Key Japanese figures include Tanizaki Jun'ichirō and Nagai Kafū. 耽美 can modify nouns as a na-adjective (耽美的な) and implies an immersive, sometimes obsessive pursuit of sensory beauty.

例文

  1. 谷崎潤一郎の作品は耽美主義の極致として今も読み継がれている。
  2. その詩集は耽美的な感性に満ちており、読む者を陶酔させる。
  3. 耽美派の作家たちは美を道徳より上位に置くことを信条とした。

使い方ガイド

場面: literature, art criticism, aesthetics, literary history

トーン: elevated

起源と歴史

Compound of 耽 (to be absorbed in, to indulge) and 美 (beauty). 耽 carries a sense of deep immersion, intensifying the devotion implied. Coined as a Japanese translation equivalent of the Western Aestheticist movement.

文化的背景

時代: Meiji–Taisho

世代: Literary and artistic circles

社会的背景: Intellectuals

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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