Euphuism

Japanese: Euphuism
Euphuism

…The story tells of the journey, friendship, rifts, love affairs, and reconciliation between a Greek prince and an Italian prince. The plot is simple, but the style is distinctive. In other words, he wrote in a beautiful style that mobilized a wide range of academic knowledge, with a series of skillful couplets and further emphasised by skillful alliteration, and soon came to be mockingly called “Euphuism.” As a playwright, he excelled in comedies and often used skillful prose. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Euphuism" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ギリシア王子とイタリア王子の,旅,友情,仲たがい,恋のさやあて,和解などを語るもので,筋は単純だが,文体に著しい特徴があった。すなわち技巧的な対句を重ね,これをさらに技巧的な頭韻で強調しつつ,多彩な学識を総動員する美文調で,すぐに〈ユーフュイズムEuphuism〉とからかい半分に呼ばれるようになった。劇作家としては喜劇にすぐれ,たくみな散文を多用した。…

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