Okakura Kakuzoの "The Book of Tea" を読んでいます。"The Schools of Tea" の章からの引用です。
The "Chaking" consists of three volumes and ten chapters. In this first chapter Luwuh treats of the nature of the tea plant, in the second of the implements for gathering the leaves, in the third of the selection of the leaves. According to him the best quality of the leaves must have "creases like the leather boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like fine earth newly swept by rain."
注: "Chaking" は８世紀の半ばにLuwuhが書いた本(The Holy Scripture of Tea)を指しています。
さて "dewlap of a mighty bullock" の "dewlap" とは何でしょうか、辞書を見ます。
・Collins Dictionary: a loose fold of skin hanging from the throat of cattle and certain other animals, or a similar loose fold under the chin of a person: Males have a large dewlap that extends into the abdominal region.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a fold of loose skin that hangs under the throat of some animals such as some cows or dogs; also used to refer to a similar fold of skin on a person: The bloodhound's long dewlap and floppy ears help to catch the scent as its nose passes over the ground.
The "Chaking" consists of three volumes and ten chapters. In this first chapter Luwuh treats of the nature of the tea plant, in the second of the implements for gathering the leaves, in the third of the selection of the leaves. According to him the best quality of the leaves must have "creases like the leather boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like fine earth newly swept by rain."
注: "Chaking" は８世紀の半ばにLuwuhが書いた本(The Holy Scripture of Tea)を指しています。
さて "dewlap of a mighty bullock" の "dewlap" とは何でしょうか、辞書を見ます。
・Collins Dictionary: a loose fold of skin hanging from the throat of cattle and certain other animals, or a similar loose fold under the chin of a person: Males have a large dewlap that extends into the abdominal region.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a fold of loose skin that hangs under the throat of some animals such as some cows or dogs; also used to refer to a similar fold of skin on a person: The bloodhound's long dewlap and floppy ears help to catch the scent as its nose passes over the ground.
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