Shi-gu-wen (English: Shi-gu-wen)

Japanese: 石鼓文 - せっこぶん（英語表記）Shi-gu-wen

Characters inscribed on a type of stone drum discovered in Baoji County, Shaanxi Province, China, from the early Tang Dynasty. The stone drums are round and round, and are said to have originally contained more than 700 characters, but only 272 remain today. They are thought to have been made in Qin around the 5th century BCE, and are currently kept in the Palace Museum in Beijing. It was previously said that King Xuan of Zhou gave them to meritorious subjects during hunting expeditions, but this theory is no longer supported by many today.

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Japanese:

中国陝西省宝鶏県で初唐に 10個発見された碣 (かつ) の一種に刻された文字。石鼓の形はまんじゅう形で，もと 700字以上あったといわれるが，現存するものは 272字である。前5世紀頃，秦でつくられたと考えられ，現在北京の故宮博物院にあるという。以前は周の宣王が狩りのとき功臣に与えたものともいわれたが，現在ではその説を支持する人は少い。

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