Phra Aphaimani (English spelling)

Japanese: プラアパイマニー（英語表記）Phra Aphaimani

A long romance novel by Thailand's greatest poet, Sunthong Phu (1785-1855). It is written in eight-line kloun form with a unique, gorgeous rhyming scheme, and consists of 64 chapters, the largest number for an individual work in classical history. The year of completion is unknown. His achievement in popularizing literature by making full use of simple, everyday vocabulary is enormous. Prince Phra Apaimani sets out on a journey to study with his younger brother, learning the art of the Magic Flute, and traveling around the world, he experiences the most fantastical things. In an era when European power was spreading eastward, the author absorbed foreign knowledge widely by word of mouth, and spread his imagination from Southeast Asia to India and Europe, developing the story on a grand scale, and describing the subtleties of war, love, morals, and human feelings with elegant writing.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

タイ最高の詩人スントーンプー(1785‐1855)の大長編ロマン。絢爛華麗な独特の押韻法をもつ八言クローン形式で，古典史上，個人作品では最大の64章からなる。完成年は不明。平易な市井の語彙を駆使して文学を大衆化した功績はきわめて大きい。弟とともに修業の旅に出たプラアパイマニー王子が魔笛の術を学び，諸国を遍歴して奇想天外な経験が展開される。ヨーロッパ勢力東漸の時代にあって，著者は外国の知識を耳学問で広く吸収し，空想を東南アジアからインド，ヨーロッパにはせ，巨大なスケールで物語を発展させ，戦争，恋愛，教訓，人情の機微を流麗な筆致で描いた。

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