冠かん辞じ

noun

stereotyped epithet; conventional poetic epithet

A fixed, conventional epithet used in classical Japanese poetry (waka) to modify a particular word, often serving as a rhetorical ornament. Not used in everyday speech.

• 「あしひきの」は「山やま」にかかる冠かん辞じだ。

  "Ashibiki no" is a stereotyped epithet that modifies "yama" (mountain).

• 和わ歌かでは、冠かん辞じが特とく定ていの語ごの前まえに置おかれて詩し的てきな効こう果かを生うむ。

  In waka poetry, a stereotyped epithet is placed before a specific word to create a poetic effect.