写しゃ生せい文ぶん

noun

word picture; sketch-like prose

A literary term for prose that vividly depicts a scene or subject in a sketch-like manner, often associated with the Meiji-era literary movement led by Masaoka Shiki.

• 正まさ岡おか子し規きは写しゃ生せい文ぶんの提てい唱しょう者しゃとして知しられている。

  Masaoka Shiki is known as the advocate of shaseibun (sketch-like prose).

• この随ずい筆ひつは写しゃ生せい文ぶんの技ぎ法ほうで自し然ぜんを描びょう写しゃしている。

  This essay depicts nature using the technique of shaseibun.