Senryu - Senryu

Japanese: 川柳 - せんりゅう

[1] ⇒ Karai Senryu (Erai Senryu) [2] [Noun] (Abbreviation of "Senryu Ten") Arose in the mid-Edo period, and is a form of short poetry that uses witty expressions based on 17 syllables to sharply capture human affairs, customs, and social conditions. It originally derived from the " maekuzuke " of haiku, but after Genroku ( 1688-1704 ), there was a demand for independent tsuku, which expanded the qualities of humor, playfulness, and riddles rather than flavor, and many anthologies of tsuku that could stand alone and be appreciated were published, leading to the new human affairs and customs poems. Around the Kyoho period ( 1716-36 ), "mankuawase" (a collection of 10,000 verses) in response to questions posed by judges became popular in Edo, and the name "senryu" was born from the fact that the judge, Erai Senryu, was a representative figure of this style. During the Bunka and Bunsei eras (1804-1830 ), this was also called a "mad verse." Senryu points. *Kibyoshi, Kanekawa Sensei's Artificial Flower Dream (1794) "Looking up, the pounder ate the saury in a smash , was a famous senryu phrase."

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Japanese:

[1] ⇒からいせんりゅう（柄井川柳）[2] 〘名〙 (「川柳点」の略) 江戸中期に発生し、一七音を基準として機智的な表現によって、人事、風俗、世相などを鋭くとらえた短詩型文学。もともと俳諧の「前句付(まえくづけ)」に由来するが、元祿（一六八八‐一七〇四）以降、付味よりも、滑稽、遊戯、うがちなどの性質が拡充された付句の独立が要求されるようになり、一句として独立し鑑賞にたえる句を集めた高点付句集が多く出版され、新しい人事詩、風俗詩となった。享保（一七一六‐三六）頃から、点者の出題に応じた「万句合(まんくあわせ)」が江戸で盛んになり、その点者、柄井川柳が代表的存在であったところから「川柳」の名称が生まれる。文化・文政（一八〇四‐三〇）頃、「狂句」とも呼ばれた。川柳点。※黄表紙・金々先生造花夢（1794）「仰向いて搗屋(つきや)秋刀魚(さんま)をぶつり食ひ、とは川柳の名句であった」

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