Rudaki (English spelling) Abū 'Abd Allāh Ja'far Rūdaki

Persian poet. Born in Rudak near Samarkand, he took the name Rudaki after his birthplace. Known as the "Father of Poets" and the "Emperor of Poets," he is the greatest poet of early Persian poetry. He served as a court poet to the Samanid dynasty's Nasr II and was praised as the "flower of the Bukhara court," but in his later years he was not well-liked. He is said to have composed more than 100,000 lines of poetry in all poetic forms, including anthems, lyric poems, epics, and quatrains, but most of them have been lost and only about 1,000 lines remain. He established the foundations of the Khorasan style, which is the mainstream of classical Persian poetry. Characterized by a simple, straightforward style of writing, he is also famous as the poet of "Kalila and Dimna," which originated from an Indian tale.

[Tsuneo Kuroyanagi]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

ペルシアの詩人。サマルカンド近郊のルーダクに生まれ、生地にちなみルーダキーと号す。「詩人の父」「詩人の帝王」の異名で知られるように、初期ペルシア詩の最大の詩人。サーマーン朝ナスル2世に宮廷詩人として仕え、「ブハラ宮廷の華」とうたわれたが、晩年は不遇であった。頌詩(しょうし)、叙情詩、叙事詩、四行詩などあらゆる詩形で10万句以上作詩したと伝えられるが、大部分は散逸し、約1000句が現存するにすぎない。ペルシア古典詩の主流をなすホラサーン・スタイルの基礎を確立した。素朴、平明な文体を特色とし、インド説話を起源とする『カリーラとディムナ』の作詩者としても名高い。

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