Oguzname - Oguzname

Japanese: 《オグズ・ナーメ》 - おぐずなーめ
Oguzname - Oguzname

…A legend, tale, or heroic epic poem passed down among the Turks, with a character named Oghuz Khan (Oghuz Qaghan) as the protagonist. Among the various extant texts, the most detailed are the tale included in Rashid al-Din's Jami'-shi (Collection of the Histories) from the early 14th century, and the tale written in Middle Turkish using Uighur script (also called Oghuz-nameh), which is also believed to have been written in the same 14th century. The former tells the story of Oghuz, born as the son of Kara Khan, a direct descendant of Japheth, the son of Noah and ancestor of the Turks, who converted his mother and wife to Islam, eventually defeating his pagan father and his clan and seizing kingship, and then his six children, named the Sun, Moon, Star, Sky, Mountain, and Sea, each having four children, from which the 24 Oghuz clans emerged. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Oghuznameh" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…トルコ民族の間に伝えられた,オグズ・ハーンOghuz Khān(オグズ・カガンOghuz Qaghan)なる人物を主人公とする伝説・説話ないし英雄叙事詩。現存する諸種のテキストの中では,14世紀初頭のラシード・アッディーンの《集史》に収められた説話と,同じ14世紀の作品と推定されているウイグル文字を用いて中期トルコ語で記された説話(《オグズ・ナーメ》とも呼ばれる)が内容的には最も詳しい。前者では,ノアの子でトルコ人の祖ヤペテの直系であるカラ・ハーンの子として生まれたオグズが,母・妻をイスラムに改宗させ,やがて異教徒である父をはじめとする一族に勝利して王権を握り,次いで日・月・星・空・山・海という名をもつ彼の6子がそれぞれ4人ずつの子をもうけ,これらの24子からオグズの24氏族が出現する過程が語られている。…

※「《オグズ・ナーメ》」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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