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单词 yugen
释义

yugenn.

/ˈjuːɡən/
Forms: Also yūgen and with capital initial.
Etymology: Japanese, < dark + gen the unfathomable.
In traditional Japanese Court culture, esp. poetry and, later, the No play, a hidden quality of graceful beauty or mystery; profound aestheticism.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [noun]
elegance1655
goût1699
taste1739
tastefulness1843
tastiness1882
yugen1921
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun]
facunda1340
rhetoricc1405
elegancy?a1475
elegance?1504
facundity1530
grace1530
festivity1542
roundness1557
concinnity1577
style1589
comptness1611
politeness1627
concinneness1655
speakingness1851
style1851
daintiness1878
yugen1921
simplex munditiis1933
1921 A. Waley Nō Plays of Japan 21 The difficult term yūgen which occurs constantly..is derived from Zen literature. It means ‘what lies beneath the surface’; the subtle, as opposed to the obvious; the hint as opposed to the statement.
1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Oct. 715/1 Such a couplet..can hardly be said to capture the spirit of yugen.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 May 291/2 This brief basking in the Shōgun's favour led Zeami to stress the importance in performance of Yūgen, or elegant beauty and gentleness.
1970 Daily Tel. 16 May 9/4 His smooth curving movements of a fan, together with circling movements across the stage..gave a poetic suggestion of flight, illustrating the Yugen—indirection, allusiveness, mystery—which lies at the heart of No.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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