Chi-bi fu (Chi-bi fu)

Japanese: 赤壁賦 - せきへきのふ（英語表記）Chi-bi fu

A fu from the Northern Song Dynasty, China, written by Su Shi. It was completed in 1082. The author was exiled from the capital in 1082 due to political strife, and in July of the following year, he described his visit to Red Cliffs on the Yangtze River. He visited Red Cliffs again in October of the same year and wrote a sequel, so the work written in July is called the Former Fu to Red Cliffs and the one written in October is called the Later Fu to Red Cliffs. In both works, the author vividly describes the joys of boating with friends, along with awe at the harsh nature and sadness at the fleeting nature of life. The fu includes a recollection of the Battle of Red Cliffs, famous in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but the actual battlefield was located much further upstream. Fu flourished during the Han Dynasty, but in the Song Dynasty it became known as "wen fu" and was extremely prosaic. Fu to Red Cliffs is a representative masterpiece and the most famous of Chinese fu.

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Japanese:

中国，北宋の賦。蘇軾 (そしょく) の作。元豊5 (1082) 年成立。政争のため同3年都を追われ黄州 (湖北省) に流された作者が，翌々年7月揚子江中の赤壁に遊んだときのありさまを記したもの。同年 10月再び赤壁に遊び続編をつくったので，7月の作を『前赤壁賦』，10月の作を『後赤壁賦』と呼ぶ。いずれも友と連れ立った舟遊びの楽しさを，きびしい自然に対する畏怖と，はかない人生に対する悲哀とともに，才気あふれた筆で述べる。賦のなかで『三国志』で有名な赤壁の戦いの回想が入るが，実際の古戦場はずっと上流の同名の地である。漢代に栄えた賦は，宋代に入ると「文賦」と呼ばれて著しく散文化したが，『赤壁賦』はその代表的傑作であるとともに，中国の賦のなかでも最も有名な作品である。

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