Deus ex machina

Japanese: デウス･エクス･マキナ（英語表記）deus ex machina

A Latin translation of the Greek theos apo mēchanēs, meaning "the deity of the clockwork" or "the deity that appears by a clockwork mechanism." By extension, it refers to an easy solution to overcome a difficult situation. In ancient Greek drama, when the conflict in the play escalated to an unsolvable situation, a god would often suddenly appear, reveal a truth that was not visible to the human eye, provide a clue to overcome the difficulty, and end the play. To make the god appear in such a scene, a kind of crane-like mechanism was devised, which was called a "clockwork mechanism."

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

ギリシア語のtheos apo mēchanēsのラテン語訳で，〈機械仕掛けの神〉〈機械仕掛けで現れる神〉の意。転じて難局打開のための安易な解決策を指す。古代ギリシア演劇においては，劇中の葛藤が高じて解決不可能の局面を迎えると，しばしば突如として神が現れ，人間の眼に映っていなかった真実を解示して難関突破の糸口を与え，芝居が終わる。このような場面に神を登場させるために一種のクレーンのごとき仕掛けが考案され，これが〈機械仕掛け〉と呼ばれた。

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