also: ぎじんほう
Rhetorical device where human traits are given to non-human things; used in literature and poetry.
In the poem, personification is used where the wind whispers.
Standard kanji spelling; the reading ぎじんほう is more common than ぎしんほう.
Alternate reading; less common but still encountered.
Formed from 擬人 “representing a nonhuman thing as human” and 法 “method.” The reading 人 is the regular Sino-Japanese reading じん.