Poetry of Respect - Ouseishi

…This was the heyday of court poetry, when regulated verse developed as a well-balanced, elegant, and gorgeous form of poetry suitable for recitation at the court. Wang Bo and Yang Xiong were instrumental in perfecting the five-character regulated verse, while Song Zhiwen and Shen Xinqi perfected the seven-character regulated verse. Poems written at the command of the emperor at official court events, called responsive verse, were generally written in regulated or paili verse, while poems written as subjects for the imperial examination, called poetry anthology, were limited to paili verse. During the height of the Tang Dynasty, regulated verse came to be used in many areas, such as lyricism and landscape description, but Du Fu in particular brought out the rich possibilities of the seven-character regulated verse, and it is even said that Du Fu was the true perfector of it. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "responsive poetry" are listed below.

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…この時は宮廷詩の全盛期で，宮廷で唱和するにふさわしい，均整の取れた，典雅華麗な詩型として律詩が発達したもので，王勃（おうぼつ）や陽炯（ようけい）は五言律詩の完成に，宋之問（そうしもん）や沈佺期（しんせんき）は七言律詩の完成に力があった。応制詩と称して，宮廷の公式の席で，皇帝の命によって制作する詩は律詩または排律が原則であり，詩帖（しちよう）詩と称する，科挙の試験の課題として制作される詩は排律にかぎられた。　盛唐期に入って，律詩は抒情，叙景の多方面に用いられるようになったが，ことに七言律詩は，杜甫によってその豊富な可能性をくみ出され，真の完成者は杜甫であるとまで言われている。…

※「応制詩」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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