序じょ詞し

noun

foreword; preface; introduction

Only with reading じょし

General term for an introductory statement in a book or document. Reading is じょし.

• この本ほんの序じょ詞しには著ちょ者しゃの思おもいが綴つづられている。

  The author's thoughts are written in the preface of this book.

noun

prefatory modifying statement (in waka)

A poetic device in classical waka where an introductory phrase modifies or leads into the main statement. Often read じょことば in this context.

• 和わ歌かにおける序じょ詞しは、後のちの句くを導みちびく修しゅう辞じ技ぎ法ほうの一ひとつだ。

  In waka, the prefatory modifying statement is one of the rhetorical techniques that lead into the following phrase.