六りく義ぎ

noun

six forms of the Shi Jing

Refers to the six classical categories of poems in the Chinese classic Shi Jing: three genres (folk songs, festal songs, hymns) and three rhetorical styles (narrative, explicit comparison, implicit comparison). A technical term in Chinese poetics.

• 六りく義ぎは中ちゅう国ごくの詩し経きょうにおける詩しの分ぶん類るい法ほうである。

  The six forms are a classification system for poems in the Chinese Shi Jing.

noun

six forms of waka

In Japanese poetics, the six styles of waka poetry: allegorical, enumerative, metaphorical, allusive, plain, and congratulatory. A specialized term in classical Japanese literature.

• 古こ今きん和わ歌か集しゅうの序じょ文ぶんには六りく義ぎについての説せつ明めいがある。

  The preface of the Kokin Wakashū contains an explanation of the six forms of waka.

noun

six principles of calligraphy

A set of six fundamental principles or rules in East Asian calligraphy. The exact list may vary by tradition.

• 書しょ道どうの六りく義ぎには筆ひっ法ぽうや結けっ構こうなどの基き本ほんが含ふくまれる。

  The six principles of calligraphy include basics such as brush technique and character structure.

noun

six classes of kanji characters

Synonymous with 六書 (rikusho), the traditional six categories of Chinese characters (pictographs, ideographs, compound ideographs, phono-semantic compounds, derivative characters, and loan characters).

See also: 六書

• 六りく義ぎは漢かん字じの成なり立たちを説せつ明めいする六むっつの分ぶん類るいである。

  The six classes are six categories that explain the origins of kanji characters.