Kakekotoba
A kakekotoba (掛詞) or pivot word is a rhetorical device used in the Japanese poetic form waka. This trope uses the phonetic reading of a grouping of kanji (Chinese characters) to suggest several interpretations: first on the literal level (e.g. 松, matsu, meaning "pine tree"), then on subsidiary homophonic levels (e.g. 待つ, matsu, meaning "to wait"). Thus it is that many waka have pine trees waiting around for something. The presentation of multiple meanings inherent in a single word allows the poet a fuller range of artistic expression with an economical syllable-count. Such brevity is highly valued in Japanese aesthetics, where maximal meaning and reference are sought in a minimal number of syllables. Kakekotoba are generally written in the Japanese phonetic syllabary, hiragana, so that the
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Kakekotoba
A kakekotoba (掛詞) or pivot word is a rhetorical device used in the Japanese poetic form waka. This trope uses the phonetic reading of a grouping of kanji (Chinese characters) to suggest several interpretations: first on the literal level (e.g. 松, matsu, meaning "pine tree"), then on subsidiary homophonic levels (e.g. 待つ, matsu, meaning "to wait"). Thus it is that many waka have pine trees waiting around for something. The presentation of multiple meanings inherent in a single word allows the poet a fuller range of artistic expression with an economical syllable-count. Such brevity is highly valued in Japanese aesthetics, where maximal meaning and reference are sought in a minimal number of syllables. Kakekotoba are generally written in the Japanese phonetic syllabary, hiragana, so that the
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A kakekotoba (掛詞) or pivot wor ...... are more immediately apparent.
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Il kakekotoba (掛詞?) è una figu ...... tico tipico del Periodo Heian.
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掛詞(かけことば)とは、和歌などにおける修辞技法の一つ。
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A kakekotoba (掛詞) or pivot wor ...... llabary, hiragana, so that the
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Il kakekotoba (掛詞?) è una figu ...... o sia immediatamente visibile.
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掛詞(かけことば)とは、和歌などにおける修辞技法の一つ。
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Kakekotoba
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Kakekotoba
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掛詞
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