前まえ書がき

maegaki

preface, foreword

Example sentences

その前書まえがきによると初出版以来はつしゅっぱんいらい8年間ねんかんで合計約ごうけいやく70万冊まんさつが売うれたとの事ことである。
According to the preamble, 700,000 copies were sold during the eight years since the first was published.
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ちなみに『日本にほんの女性じょせい』の前書まえがきには「生涯しょうがいの友人ゆうじん・大山捨松おおやますてまつに捧ささげる」という一文いちぶんが添そえられ、捨松すてまつとは死しぬ直前ちょくぜんまで文通ぶんつうを交かわしていた。
In that connection, in the preface of "Japanese Girls and Women," she had written this sentence ‛to my lifelong friend, Sutematsu Oyama' and she had been exchanging letters with Sutematsu until just before she died.
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発句ほっくが中心ちゅうしんとなって文章ぶんしょうはその前書まえがき、詞書ことばがきとしての性格せいかくが強つよい。
The main component of the book is haikai poetry, and prose is used for the foreword and captions for the poetry.
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