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A Chinese literary style. It refers to the "inscription and postscript" attached to poetry, books, tablet collections, calligraphy, paintings, etc., and is also called "title colophon." Originally, the words at the beginning were called "inscriptions," and the words at the end were called "postscripts" ("postscripts" or "postscripts"). The "Inscriptions on Mencius" by Zhao Qi of the Han Dynasty records the creation, origin, and main points of "Mencius," and is in a style similar to a "preface" (side note). The distinction between "inscriptions" at the beginning and "postscripts" at the end is not necessarily fixed, and there are actually many examples where the words at the end are called "postscripts" or simply "inscriptions." This style of writing was actively developed after the Song dynasty by Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian and others, and when the title at the top of a stone tablet or at the beginning of a book was a very short phrase, it was called a "title."

[Masaya Sugimori]

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中国の文体の一つ。詩文、書籍、碑帖(ひじょう)、書画などにつける「題辞跋文」のことで「表題奥書(おくがき)」ともいう。元来、冒頭に題(しる)すことばを「題辞」、後尾につけることばを「跋文」（「跋」あるいは「書後」）とよんだ。漢の趙岐(ちょうぎ)の「孟子(もうし)題辞」は「孟子」の成立、由来、主旨などを記し、「序」（端書き）に似た文体となっている。「題辞」が冒頭、「跋文」が後尾という区別はかならずしも固定せず、後尾につけることばを「題跋書後」あるいは単に「題跋」とする用例がむしろ多い。宋(そう)代以後、欧陽修(おうようしゅう)、蘇軾(そしょく)、黄庭堅(こうていけん)らによって盛んにつくられるようになった文体で、石碑の上部や書物の初めに題す文章が、ごく短い語句になった場合、「題」とよばれた。

［杉森正弥］

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