Intercalary bodies - Renmentai

Japanese: 連綿体 - れんめんたい
Intercalary bodies - Renmentai

A type of calligraphy that refers to continuous writing of Chinese characters such as semi-cursive and cursive scripts and kana. It also refers to something that has been transcribed using this style. In China, where characters were invented before Japan, the formal style of writing for official documents and the like changed from seal script to clerical script to regular script, and in practical terms, the development of semi-cursive and cursive scripts made transcribing more efficient, but the spread of continuous writing made it even more effective.

When Manyo-gana first appeared in Japan (Nara period), it was written in regular script with one character and one sound per character, but to encourage speed, cursive Chinese characters were applied, and in the Heian period, so-gana was born. Eventually, this was further simplified to form hiragana, but ren-wa-tsu ...

[Hiroyuki Shimatani]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

書法の一種で、漢字の行書・草書や仮名などの続け書きのこと。またこの書法で書写されたものをいう。日本に先駆けて文字が考案された中国では、公文書などの正式書体も篆書(てんしょ)、隷(れい)書、楷(かい)書へと変遷し、実用面でも行書、草書の発達で書写の能率化が進むが、さらに連綿の普及でより効果的となった。

 日本でも万葉仮名発生当初(奈良時代)は楷書体で一字一音表記であったが、速筆を促すために漢字の草書体が応用され、平安時代に入って草(そう)仮名の誕生をみた。やがてこれをより簡略化して平仮名が成立するが、書写能力向上のために仮名にも連綿が応用され、数多くの古筆遺品が伝存する。連綿体は漢字、仮名ともに単に実用性のみでなく、洗練された独自の書を展開し、書法の一手段として重要な位置を占めている。

[島谷弘幸]

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