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Japanese: simile

…Some sketches for the composition plan, such as Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna and Child with Saint Anne, were as valuable as tableaux and had a great influence on later generations. (4) Simile (Italian) A term meaning "type" for drawings made only in the early Italian Renaissance. These were traditional drawings, or drawings depicting the details of a subject or a type of composition, and were passed on to the workshops as models for their creation. …

From 【Metaphor】

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[Types of metaphor]
The main types of metaphors are as follows: (1) Simile: To describe something X, we explicitly express the similarity between it and a different thing Y, such as "X is like Y" or "X is very similar to Y." For example, this is in the form "The shogunate's secret agents are like dogs..."

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また構成案のための下絵には，レオナルド･ダ･ビンチの《聖アンナと聖母子》のように，タブローに等しい価値を有し，後世に大きな影響を与えた例もある。(4)シーミレsimile(イタリア語)　イタリアの初期ルネサンス期にのみ行われた素描で，〈類型〉の意味をもつ用語。伝統的な図像や，主題のディテールや構成の類型を描いた素描で，工房に伝えられ，制作の範例とされた。…