Leisure Poem - Kantekishi

…The New Musical Songs were a successor to the Han Dynasty songs and poems, the Musical Songs, and were intended to return to the original purpose of the Musical Songs, which was to inform the emperor of the real conditions of the people. In addition to these, there are categories called leisure poems, sentimental poems, and miscellaneous virtuoso poems, and among these there are many excellent works. Leisure poems are poems that express emotions that arise in everyday life, and sentimental poems are literally sentimental works, and Song of Everlasting Regret and Pipa Song belong to this category. …

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…〈新楽府〉とは漢代の歌謡〈楽府〉のあとを継いで，民間の実情を皇帝に知らしめるという，〈楽府〉本来の主旨にもどらんとするものであった。このほかには〈閑適詩〉〈感傷詩〉〈雑律詩〉とよばれる部類立てがあって，そのなかにもすぐれた作品が数多く見られる。〈閑適詩〉とは日常生活の中でわき起こる感興を詠じたものであり，〈感傷詩〉とは文字どおり感傷的な作品で，《長恨歌》《琵琶行》はこれに属する。…

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