kanbun converted into literary Japanese
Archaic term referring to classical Chinese texts (kanbun) that have been annotated or transformed into a form of literary Japanese through kundoku (reading by Japanese word order and adding okurigana). Used in historical linguistic contexts.
See also: 漢文 (かんぶん)
Kanbun kundoku-bun is a style of writing in which Chinese classical texts are annotated with marks for reading them as Japanese.
漢文 refers to the original classical Chinese text, while 漢文訓読文 is the resulting Japanese reading or converted text.
訓読 is the method of reading kanbun by rearranging word order and supplying Japanese readings; 漢文訓読文 is the product of that process.
Compound of 漢文 (kanbun, 'classical Chinese text'), 訓読 (kundoku, 'Japanese reading of kanbun'), and 文 (bun, 'text/sentence'). The term describes the resulting Japanese text after applying kundoku conventions.