Yu Miri の小説 "Tokyo Ueno Station" を読み始めました。
My father told me that his great-grandfather, the third generation of the Mori family since their move to Soma, still spoke the Kaga dialect. He said that in the old days the dead were placed sitting up in coffins that resembled palanquins and were taken to funeral pyres in the mountains, accompanied by all the people of the village reciting the nembutsu. The coffin was placed on the wooden pyre, then lit with wood or straw, the mourners taking turns to keep watch until all that was left were the bones.
以前宮部みゆきの 'Crossfire' を読んだ時に(5/30/2018)ステファン・キングの造語 "pyrokinesis"(the supposed ability to start fires by thought alone) を取り上げましたが、上記引用文の "funeral pyres" と "wooden pyre" の "funeral pyres" は文脈から火葬のために積み上げた薪と推測できます。 辞書で確認します。
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a large pile of wood on which a dead body is burned in some parts of the world: A traditional Hindu custom used to involve widows burning themselves alive on their husbands' funeral pyres.
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: a combustible heap for burning a dead body as a funeral rite: a pyre of dead leaves
pyre
・Wiktionary: A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.: For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare.
"pyr" / "B>pyro" は火に関する接尾語ですね。
My father told me that his great-grandfather, the third generation of the Mori family since their move to Soma, still spoke the Kaga dialect. He said that in the old days the dead were placed sitting up in coffins that resembled palanquins and were taken to funeral pyres in the mountains, accompanied by all the people of the village reciting the nembutsu. The coffin was placed on the wooden pyre, then lit with wood or straw, the mourners taking turns to keep watch until all that was left were the bones.
以前宮部みゆきの 'Crossfire' を読んだ時に(5/30/2018)ステファン・キングの造語 "pyrokinesis"(the supposed ability to start fires by thought alone) を取り上げましたが、上記引用文の "funeral pyres" と "wooden pyre" の "funeral pyres" は文脈から火葬のために積み上げた薪と推測できます。 辞書で確認します。
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a large pile of wood on which a dead body is burned in some parts of the world: A traditional Hindu custom used to involve widows burning themselves alive on their husbands' funeral pyres.
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: a combustible heap for burning a dead body as a funeral rite: a pyre of dead leaves
pyre
・Wiktionary: A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.: For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare.
"pyr" / "B>pyro" は火に関する接尾語ですね。
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