Honihonjou - true intention

Japanese: 本意本情 - ほんいほんじょう

It is also called "hoihonjo." In addition to its meaning of original will or true intention, "honi" is also used as a literary term to mean the inherent qualities of something, the way something is appropriate to something, or the way it should be, such as "spring rain falls thinly and quietly." In haiku, it is also called "honjo (nature)." The theory of honi in waka and renga began as a warning not to ignore the essence of things and events and to avoid becoming immersed in artificiality. However, as time passed, this idea gave rise to an attitude of blindly believing the outstanding works of predecessors as the norm, and it began to have the harmful effect of stereotyping and fixing ways of looking at things.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

〈ほいほんじょう〉ともいう。〈本意〉は，本来の意志･真意という意味のほかに，文学上の用語として，〈春雨は細く静かに降るものだ〉というような，そのものに本来そなわっている性質，そのものにふさわしい在り方，本来あるべきさまなどの意味に用いられる。俳諧ではこれを〈本情(性)〉ともいう。和歌，連歌の本意論は，物や事柄の本質を無視して作意に溺れることのないようにという誡めから始まった。ところが，その考えは時代が降るにつれ，先達の秀れた作品を規範として妄信する態度を生み，物の見方を類型化，固定化する弊害を生じるようになった。

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